Frequently Asked Questions About the Data Lakehouse
Question Index What is a Data Lakehouse? How is a Data Lakehouse different from a Data Warehouse? How is the Data Lakehouse different from a Data Lake? How easy is it for data analysts to use a Data Lakehouse? How do Data Lakehouse systems compare in performance and cost to data warehouses? What data governance...
Rise of the Lakehouse
With the fast-moving evolution of the data lake, Billy Bosworth and Ali Ghodsi share their mutual thoughts on the top 5 common questions they get asked about data warehouses, data lakes and lakehouses. Coming from different backgrounds, they each provide unique and valuable insights into this market. Ali has spent more than 10 years on...
Spark + AI Summit Europe is Expanding and Getting a New Name: Data + AI Summit Europe
Back in 2013, we held the first Spark Summit — a gathering of the Apache Spark™ community with leading contributors and production users sharing their wisdom. Since the first event, Spark’s success has accelerated the evolution of data science, data engineering and analytics. As the data community has expanded, we’ve evolved the content and the...
The data community raised a total of $101,626 to help organizations fight racial injustice. Thank you to all who donated!
Our commitment to diversity and inclusion is inherent in our company values at Databricks, but recent events and protests around the world have reminded us that there’s much more we can do to bring awareness to racial injustice and drive meaningful change. This year’s theme at Spark + AI Summit was “DATA TEAMS UNITE!” and...
Evolving the Databricks brand
Some brands start out as, well, brands. A lot of work goes into the concept and painting the picture before the business is ever launched. Databricks is different. It always has been and always will be an engineering-led company. Databricks’ model for innovation is inspired by the open-source community. This is where our roots run...
Business Continuity at Databricks During COVID-19 Crisis
Dear valued customer, As COVID-19 continues to impact our daily lives, we are thinking about those affected as well as the practitioners who are delivering essential services to so many. As we adjust to a new reality, we want you to know that we have never lost focus on you and have a comprehensive plan...
What is a Lakehouse?
Over the past few years at Databricks, we've seen a new data management architecture that emerged independently across many customers and use cases: the lakehouse. In this post we describe this new architecture and its advantages over previous approaches. Data warehouses have a long history in decision support and business intelligence applications. Since its inception...
Accelerating Innovation With Unified Analytics
The AI Dilemma Artificial Intelligence (AI) has massive potential to drive disruptive innovations affecting most enterprises on the planet. However, most enterprises are struggling to succeed with AI . Why is that? Simply put, AI and Data are siloed in different systems and different organizations. Enterprise data is siloed across hundreds of systems such as...
Azure Databricks, industry-leading analytics platform powered by Apache Spark™
The confluence of cloud, data, and AI is driving unprecedented change. The ability to utilize data and turn it into breakthrough insights is foundational to innovation today. Our goal is to empower organizations to unleash the power of data and reimagine possibilities that will improve our world. To enable this journey, we are excited to...
Introducing Azure Databricks
99% of organizations still struggle to get valuable analytics from their Big Data and achieve the full potential of AI. Today I’m excited to announce a new partnership with Microsoft that represents a major leap forward in achieving Databricks’ mission of making Big Data and AI easy: Databricks will now be offered by Microsoft as...
