The cloud-hosted environment, described by Databricks as being deployed by more than 150 firms, aims to simplify the use of the open-source cluster compute engine and cut the time spent developing, ...

As well as access control, Databricks 2.0 now offers use of the popular R statistical programming language, support for multiple versions of Spark, and notebook versioning. Spark started in 2009 as a ...

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Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Databricks, a startup that provides support for the popular open-source ...

Databricks, the company founded by the creators of Apache Spark—the powerful open-source processing engine that provides blazingly fast and sophisticated analytics—announced today the launch of ...

At the Hadoop World conference in New York City last fall, much of the excitement was around another big data crunching technology —Apache Spark. Full house with people standing during Spark talk.

The immensely popular open-source cluster computing framework Apache Spark has just reached version 2.0, according to an announcement by the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) yesterday. Spark’s ...

Invented eight years ago and intensively commercialized over the past several years, Apache Spark has become a core power tool for data scientists and other developers working sophisticated projects ...

At its Data + AI Summit, Databricks today made the requisite number of announcements one would expect from a company’s flagship developer event. Among those are the launch of Delta Lake 2.0, the next ...