Databricks claims that Delta, which is now part of the Spark-based Databricks Runtime, improves extract/transform/load operations and other data-preparation performance up to 100 times through ...

Databricks is determined to keep Spark evolving. In a set of slides delivered at the Spark Summit keynote, Databricks CTO and Spark creator Matei Zaharia talked about the forthcoming Spark 2.0.

The company intends to use the new capital to accelerate its AI strategy — expanding Agent Bricks, investing in its new ...

Ghodsi said the creators of Spark created Databricks Cloud, which was unveiled last June, because getting started with any of these frameworks, even Spark, requires users to go through a lot of hoops.

First created as part of a research project at UC Berkeley AMPLab, Spark is an open source project in the big data space, built for sophisticated analytics, speed, and ease of use. It unifies critical ...

The company expects to use the new capital to accelerate its AI strategy — expanding Agent Bricks, investing in its new ...

Databricks is giving users a set of new tools for big data processing with enhancements to Apache Spark. The new tools and features make it easier to do machine learning within Spark, process ...

Databricks, the company founded by the team that created Apache Spark, today announced the completion of the first phase of the Databricks Enterprise Security (DBES) framework.

“Spark is a game changer,” said Paco Nathan, Databricks training director and data veteran. “It’s allowing more of the business customer inside of an organization to get hands-on with the ...

Spark was started in 2009 by Matei Zaharia, now CTO of Databricks, as part of his PhD and developed as part of the UC Berkeley's AMPLab. Databricks' CEO is Ion Stoica, a UC Berkeley professor and ...

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, 9:35 a.m. PT ...