by Angela Guess According to a new press release, “Databricks, provider of the leading Unified Analytics Platform and founded by the team who created Apache Spark™, today announced the opening of its new EMEA headquarters in London to support the company’s international growth. As part of this, Databricks has appointed David Wyatt, who built MuleSoft’s […]
Databricks Unveils Serverless Platform for Apache Spark
by Angela Guess According to a recent press release, “Databricks, the company founded by the creators of the popular Apache Spark project, today announced a new offering that radically simplifies the management of Apache Spark workloads in the cloud. Databricks Serverless, the first fully managed computing platform for Apache Spark, allows teams to share a […]
Databricks Accelerates Apache Spark’s Structured Streaming and Launches Production Platform
by Angela Guess According to a new press release, “Databricks, the company founded by the creators of the popular Apache Spark project, today announced the general availability of Structured Streaming, a high-level API that enables stream processing at up to five times higher throughput than other engines, on its cloud platform. Databricks is also contributing […]
Databricks Launches New Edition of Its Apache Spark-Based Cloud Platform for Data Engineers
by Angela Guess According to a new press release, “Databricks, the company founded by the creators of the popular Apache Spark project and providers of the leading Spark-based cloud platform for data science, today announced an edition of its cloud platform optimized specifically for data engineering workloads called Databricks for Data Engineering. The new offering […]
Databricks Adds Deep Learning Support to Cloud-Based Apache Spark Platform
by Angela Guess A new press release out of the company reports, “Databricks, the company founded by the creators of the Apache Spark™ project, today announced the addition of deep learning support to its cloud-based Apache Spark platform. This enhancement adds GPU support and integrates popular deep learning libraries to the Databricks’ big data platform, […]
Databricks Now Supports Apache Spark 2.0 on Its Just-in-Time Data Platform
by Angela Guess According to a new release out of the company, “Databricks, the company founded by the team that created Apache® Spark™, today announced that Apache Spark 2.0 is generally available on its just-in-time data platform, making it the first vendor to offer Apache Spark 2.0 support. With major contributions from Databricks and the […]
Databricks Announces General Availability of Community Edition
by Angela Guess A new article out of the organization reports, “Databricks, the company founded by the team that created Apache® Spark™, today announced the General Availability of Databricks Community Edition (DCE), a free version of the just-in-time data platform built on top of open source Apache Spark, at Spark Summit 2016. DCE is accessible […]
55 Big Data Startups Worth Watching
by Angela Guess Rick Whiting recently put together a list of 55 Big Data startups to watch for CRN. His list includes, “Alation. Top Executive: CEO Satyen Sangani. Alation exited stealth last year, debuting its enterprise data-accessibility platform that’s designed to help people more easily find, understand, use and govern their data for making faster […]