Python was already the most popular language in Spark before the latest batch of improvements (and Databricks and the Apache Spark community aren’t done). So it’s interesting to note the level of ...

Unveiled last June, the Apache Spark cloud-hosted platform from Databricks has now opened its doors for business. Written by Toby Wolpe, Contributor June 15, 2015 at 9:35 a.m. PT ...

SAN FRANCISCO, March 06, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Databricks, provider of the leading Unified Analytics Platform and founded by the team who created Apache Spark™, today announced the ...

With access to datasets widening inside businesses, the Databricks big-data Apache Spark cloud offering is adding new features to cope. Written by Toby Wolpe, Contributor Aug. 5, 2015 at 6:00 a.m. PT ...

According to Apache Spark creator Matei Zaharia, Spark will see a number of new features and enhancements to existing features in 2017, including the introduction of a standard binary data format, ...

Databricks Inc. today took some serious steps toward boosting the value proposition of the popular open-source Apache Spark big data processing engine, which is facing potent new competition.The S ...

What’s maybe more exciting, though, is something Databricks calls Project Lightspeed, which the company describes as the next generation of the Spark streaming engine.

At the Databricks Data+AI Summit, held in San Francisco, USA, from June 10 to 12, Databricks announced that it is contributing the technology behind Delta Live Tables (DLT) to the Apache Spark project ...

Spark 1.4 also adds DataFrame improvements, enhanced machine learning, DataVis, and Project Tungsten support ...

Databricks Inc. is turning its attention to machine learning by adding support for deep learning on its cloud-based Apache Spark platform.The gist of the announcement is that Databricks is adding.