Data analytics contender Databricks offers a platform that, along with the open source Apache Spark technology on which its core is based, has long been a favorite for attacking streaming data, data ...

The new SQL Analytics software provides a more effective, more cost-efficient alternative to complex data warehouse systems, according to the big data company. Fast-growing big data company Databricks ...

The immensely popular open-source cluster computing framework Apache Spark has just reached version 2.0, according to an announcement by the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) yesterday. Spark’s ...

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, ...

Databricks, the company founded by the team that created Apache® Spark™, today announced that Apache Spark 2.0 is generally available on its just-in-time data platform, making it the first vendor to ...

Along with phenomena such as container technology Docker, Apache Spark has emerged as a new darling of the open-source world, with widespread take-up by data teams and developers, backed by a highly ...