Databricks Cloud handles the metadata, launching and provisioning a Spark Cluster, and makes it easy for that cluster to process an organization's data stored in Amazon's S3 service. Databricks ...

Students can access basic Databricks functionality including creating a micro cluster, playing with the cluster management tool and creating a notebook and dashboard. If they wish to go further ...

But Spark clusters can be difficult beasts, Stoica says. Databricks hopes to change all that with its hosted Databricks Cloud platform as a turnkey solution. “Getting the full value out of their ...

Databricks, a company founded by the creators of the Apache Spark cluster computing framework, announced the beta release of Databricks Community Edition at Spark Summit East in New York City today.

For those of you just tuning in, Spark, an open source cluster computing framework, was originally developed by Matei Zaharia at U.C. Berkeley’s AMPLab in 2009, and later open-sourced and ...