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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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' ...

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 ...

In five years, analytics cluster framework Spark has moved from a research lab to the datacentre and production workloads. Databricks CEO Ion Stoica charts its rise.

Databricks, the inventor and commercial distributor of the Apache Spark processing platform, has announced the launch of an open source project called Delta Sharing at the Data + AI Summit.

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