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.

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

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.

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 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.

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 ...

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.