Databricks adds new SQL Analytics Workspace and Endpoint features, consolidating its acquisition of Redash and bolstering its "data lakehouse" marketing push.

The company achieved a $350 million annual revenue run rate in the third quarter of 2020. With SQL Analytics, Databricks looks to resolve the data warehouse vs. data lake debate in the big data world.

Fivetran Extends Integration With Databricks, Accelerating SQL Analytics, Data Science and Machine-Learning Applications November 12, 2020 06:00 AM Eastern Standard Time ...

Databricks says that this work, which was based on TPC-DS benchmarks but not TPC-audited, shows Databricks SQL to be 2.7x faster (see the figure below from a Databricks blog post on the subject).

Data analysis The Databricks SQL analytics platform uses machine learning to allow users to create queries in ANSI SQL and develop visualizations and dashboards using their accessible data.

Leveraging Databricks SQL, Qlik’s Databricks (Delta) Endpoint optimizes the continuous and real-time data ingestion through Qlik Data Integration into Delta Lake on Databricks. This gives ...

In a demo, Ghodsi showed me what the new SQL Analytics workspace looks like. It’s essentially a stripped-down version of the standard code-heavy experience with which Databricks users are familiar.