To gain a better understanding of how to develop with Azure Databricks, it is important to understand the underlying architecture. We will look at two aspects of the Databricks architecture: the Azure ...

Databricks is determined to keep Spark evolving. In a set of slides delivered at the Spark Summit keynote, Databricks CTO and Spark creator Matei Zaharia talked about the forthcoming Spark 2.0. It ...

Apache Spark 2.0 is now generally available on the Databricks data platform. The company touts five to 10x performance increases over Spark 1.6 and new support for continuous applications with ...

Apache Spark was the pinnacle of advanced analytics just a few years ago. As the primary developer of this technology, Databricks Inc. has played a key role both in its commercial adoption, in the ev ...

While Spark was new to me, the algorithms in Spark MLlib were very familiar. Like Microsoft Azure Machine Learning and IBM SPSS Modeler, Databricks gives you a wide assortment of methods that you ...

With origins in academia and the open source community, Databricks was founded in 2013 by the original creators of the lakehouse architecture and open source projects including Apache Spark, Delta ...

Big data startup Databricks keeps humming along, announcing on Monday a large round of venture capital and a new cloud service that aims to seed adoption of Spark -- a framework it says is faster ...