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.

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 ...

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 ...

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).

Using Databricks Photon SQL engine with spot instances brought the Price/Performance metric for a 100TB TPC-DS decision support benchmark down to $146, which is roughly 12 times better than the ...

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.