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.

After conducting an analysis, the Converter starts converting the rival data warehouse into Databricks SQL by using a configuration-driven approach that is expected to account for differences ...

The company also released Databricks SQL Serverless (on AWS) to offer a completely managed service to maintain, configure and scale cloud infrastructure on the lakehouse.

Databricks said Lakebridge can cut project timelines in half while supporting migrations from more than 10 popular systems, including Teradata Inc., Snowflake Inc., Microsoft Corp. SQL Server and ...

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).

Databricks Inc. has snapped up a startup called BladeBridge Inc., which offers tools for migrating enterprise data warehouses. The big-data company said Wednesday it plans to integrate its ...

Databricks provides options for data visualization for users’ stored data. Image: Databricks With the Snowflake web interface, Snowsight, users can visualize their data and query results as charts.

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.