Artificial intelligence that rewrites code and can reprogram old apps into newer formats is lowering the cost of switching ...

The new Community Edition Model Context Protocol server supports agentic workflows and generative AI use cases, with a ...

Who needs rewrites? This metadata-powered architecture fuses AI and ETL so smoothly, it turns pipelines into self-evolving ...

Databricks adds new SQL Analytics Workspace and Endpoint features, consolidating its acquisition of Redash and bolstering its "data lakehouse" marketing push.

Databricks launched Lakebase today, a new database designed for enterprises and developers to build data applications and artificial intelligence agents on a single multi-cloud platform. Lakebase ...

Databricks provides options for data visualization for users’ stored data. Image: Databricks With the Snowflake web interface, Snowsight, users can visualize their data and query results as charts.

Databricks says that this work, which was based on TPC-DS benchmarks but not TPC-audited, shows Databricks SQL to be 2.7x faster (see the figure below from a Databricks blog post on the subject).

In a demo, Ghodsi showed me what the new SQL Analytics workspace looks like. It’s essentially a stripped-down version of the standard code-heavy experience with which Databricks users are familiar.