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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, ...

Scott Guthrie, Microsoft EVP of Cloud & Enterprise. Microsoft Azure customers interested in parsing large amounts of data to improve their businesses will soon be able to use Azure Databricks, ...

Databricks Inc., the primary commercial steward of the open source Apache Spark project for Big Data analytics, has upgraded its Spark-based platform, adding support for the R programming language, ...

Databricks today announced a new big data platform called the Databricks Cloud that will allow users to leverage Apache Spark technology to build end-to-end pipelines that underlie advanced analytic ...

We’re living in a world of big data. The current generation of line-of-business computer systems generate terabytes of data every year, tracking sales and production through CRM and ERP. It’s a flood ...

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Databricks is giving users a set of new tools for big data processing ...

Two years in the making, Apache Spark 2.0 will officially debut in a few weeks from Databricks Inc., which just released a technical preview so Big Data developers could get their hands on the "shiny ...

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 ...

Today to kick off Spark Summit, Databricks announced a Serverless Platform for Apache Spark — welcome news for developers looking to reduce time spent on cluster management. The move to simplify ...