The cloud-hosted environment, described by Databricks as being deployed by more than 150 firms, aims to simplify the use of the open-source cluster compute engine and cut the time spent developing, ...

Today to kick off Spark Summit, Databricks announced a Serverless Platform for Apache Spark — welcome news for developers looking to reduce time spent on cluster management. The move to simplify ...

As well as access control, Databricks 2.0 now offers use of the popular R statistical programming language, support for multiple versions of Spark, and notebook versioning. Spark started in 2009 as a ...

Databricks Inc., the primary commercial steward of the open source Apache Spark project for Big Data analytics, has upgraded its Spark-based platform, adding support for the R programming language, ...

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, ...

Invented eight years ago and intensively commercialized over the past several years, Apache Spark has become a core power tool for data scientists and other developers working sophisticated projects ...

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Databricks is enhancing its cloud based platform to strengthen its security, manageability and ease of application development. According to the vendor, the new features securely manage data access ...

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 ...

Hydrolix, the company transforming the economics of log data with its streaming data lake platform, is unveiling a new Apache Spark connector that democratizes the power of Databricks to customers’ ...