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VANCOUVER, B.C., Oct. 15 — Today Simba Technologies Inc., the worldwide leader in Big Data connectivity, and Databricks, the company founded by the creators of Apache Spark — the powerful open-source ...

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, ...

Apache Spark 3.0 is now here, and it’s bringing a host of enhancements across its diverse range of capabilities. The headliner is an big bump in performance for the SQL engine and better coverage of ...

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’ ...

Databricks has announced that, in collaboration with industry partners, it has broken the world record in the CloudSort Benchmark, a third-party industry benchmarking competition for processing large ...

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 ...

AI and data analytics company Databricks today announced the launch of SQL Analytics, a new service that makes it easier for data analysts to run their standard SQL queries directly on data lakes. And ...