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 ...

Data and AI platform Databricks has announced its agreement to acquire data management company Tabular. This deal is particularly significant because of both what it means, and the people involved.

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 ...

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 ...

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 rose to prominence within the Hadoop world as a faster and easier to use alternative to MapReduce. But as fast as Spark is today, it won’t hold a candle to future versions of Spark that ...

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 ...

Databricks, the company founded by the creators of the popular Apache Spark project, announced Deep Learning Pipelines, a new library to integrate and scale out deep learning in Apache Spark. Prior to ...

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Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Databricks and Hugging Face have collaborated to introduce a new feature ...