Big-data analytics company Databricks Inc. is adding more automation, administration and security features to its Unified Data Analytics Platform today. The updates are designed to make it safer for ...

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 ...

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The fields of machine learning and deep learning are on the brink of unprecedented breakthroughs across a variety of verticals. And according to a new report from Databricks, “data is the new fuel,” ...

Today, Databricks announced the acquisition of Lilac, a Boston-based applied research startup offering tools for data understanding and manipulation. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. The Ali ...

Databricks, the commercial company created from the open source Apache Spark project, announced the release of a free Community Edition today aimed at teaching people how to use Spark — and as an ...

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 ...

Databricks Inc. today released the latest version of Delta Lake, the storage framework that it donated to open source a year ago. Version 3.0 adds support for the Apache Iceberg and Apache Hudi data ...

A decade ago, Ion Stoica and his colleagues at UC Berkeley's school of computing identified the roadblock to performing advanced analytics. The challenge at the time was what we then called Big Data.