The Apache Spark community has improved support for Python to such a great degree over the past few years that Python is now a “first-class” language, and no longer a “clunky” add-on as it once was, ...

In sum, the data corroborate Snowflake’s assertion that its revamped go-to-market engine is landing meaningful net-new ...

Databricks has agreed to acquire Tabular, the storage platform vendor led by the creators of Apache Iceberg, in order to promote data interoperability in lakehouses. Prior to open sourcing Delta ...

And those familiar with Apache Spark will tend to gravitate ... and analytics tools. The fact that Databricks can run Python, Spark Scholar, SQL, NC SQL, and more will certainly make it attractive ...

Databricks is significant for providing, originally, a cloud-based platform for data engineering on Apache Spark, and then augmenting it with storage and pioneering the data lakehouse concept.

Databricks pioneered the lakehouse architecture ... lake and were specifically designed for open source engines such as Apache Spark™, Trino and Presto. To address these challenges, Databricks ...

Hydrolix, the company transforming the economics of log data with its streaming data lake platform, is unveiling a new Apache Spark connector that democratizes the power of Databricks to customers’ ...

By bringing together the original creators of Apache Iceberg and Linux Foundation Delta Lake, the two leading open source lakehouse formats, Databricks will lead the way with data compatibility so ...