Databricks, the commercial entity created by the developers of the open source Apache Spark project, announced $33M in Series B funding today and the launch of a new cloud product, their first one as ...

Databricks, the commercial company created from the open source Apache Spark project, announced the release of a free Community Edition today aimed at teaching people how to use Spark — and as an ...

Spark Declarative Pipelines provides an easier way to define and execute data pipelines for both batch and streaming ETL workloads across any Apache Spark-supported data source, including cloud ...

Two years in the making, Apache Spark 2.0 will officially debut in a few weeks from Databricks Inc., which just released a technical preview so Big Data developers could get their hands on the "shiny ...

Our analysis and end-user discussions continue to demonstrate that a new modern data stack is emerging along with sophisticated data-oriented “personas,” such as data analysts and data scientists.

Scott Guthrie, Microsoft EVP of Cloud & Enterprise. Microsoft Azure customers interested in parsing large amounts of data to improve their businesses will soon be able to use Azure Databricks, ...

Apache Spark is a project designed to accelerate Hadoop and other big data applications through the use of an in-memory, clustered data engine. The Apache Foundation describes the Spark project this ...