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, ...

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 ...

Apache Spark is a project designed to accelerate Hadoop and other big data applications through the use of an in-memory, clustered data engine. The Apache Foundation describes the Spark project this ...

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, ...

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 ...

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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 availability of ...

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 ...

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 ...