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, ...

Now in public preview, Snowpark Connect promises to reduce latency and complexity by moving analytics workloads where the ...

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 ...

The June update to Apache Spark brought support for R, a significant enhancement that opens the big data platform to a large audience of new potential users. Support for R in Spark 1.4 also gives ...

Data + AI Summit -- Databricks, the Data and AI company, today announced it is open-sourcing the company's core declarative ETL framework as Apache Spark™ Declarative Pipelines. This initiative ...

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, ...

With access to datasets widening inside businesses, the Databricks big-data Apache Spark cloud offering is adding new features to cope. Written by Toby Wolpe, Contributor Aug. 5, 2015, 6:00 a.m. PT ...

Apache Spark is fast, but Databricks is faster. Founded by the Spark team, Databricks is a cloud-optimized version of Spark that takes advantage of public cloud services to scale rapidly and uses ...

Data + AI Summit -- Databricks, the Data and AI company, today announced it is open-sourcing the company's core declarative ETL framework as Apache Spark™ Declarative Pipelines. This initiative comes ...