Unveiled last June, the Apache Spark cloud-hosted platform from Databricks has now opened its doors for business.

Together, these Spark 3.0 enhancements deliver an overall 2x boost to Spark SQL’s performance relative to Spark 2.4. But according to Databricks, on 60 out of 102 queries, the speedups ranged from 2x ...

First created as part of a research project at UC Berkeley AMPLab, Spark is an open source project in the big data space, built for sophisticated analytics, speed, and ease of use. It unifies critical ...

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' valuation exceeds USD 100B after a new funding round, fueled by strategic acquisitions like MosaicML and Tabular ...

Spark SQL is the Databricks-developed SQL query engine in Apache Spark, an open-source processing engine that is the most active project in the Big Data ecosystem with over 325 contributors in the ...

Databricks, a startup that provides support for the popular open-source Apache Spark project, will keep pushing the technology for speedily analyzing lots of data and releasing new products based ...

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 ...