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, ...

Analysts say that the chess match between Snowflake and Databricks isn’t about big data analytics anymore, but about becoming ...

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

"From now on you'll be able to code and do your explorative analysis and write your jobs in Databricks in R - that's in addition to the languages that we already support, which are Python ...

Databricks has announced a major new update ... As well as support for Python 3, Apache Spark 1.4 allows R users to work directly on large datasets via the SparkR R API. With over two million ...

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.

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 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 ...

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 ...