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

PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 12, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Qlik® today announced an expansion of its strategic partnership with Databricks through Qlik’s integration with the newly launched SQL Analytics ...

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).

Databricks Lakehouse Platform combines cost-effective data storage with machine learning and data analytics, and it's available on AWS, Azure, and GCP.

SQL Analytics will be available in public preview on November 18. In many ways, SQL Analytics is the product Databricks has long been looking to build and that brings its concept of a "lake house ...

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.