Hello Dolly: Democratizing the magic of ChatGPT with open modelsMarch 23, 2023 by Mike Conover, Matt Hayes, Ankit Mathur, Xiangrui Meng, Jianwei Xie, Jun Wan, Ali Ghodsi, Patrick Wendell and Matei Zaharia in Company Blog Update Apr 12, 2023: We have released Dolly 2.0, licensed for both research and commercial use. See the new blog post here...
Open Sourcing All of Delta LakeJune 30, 2022 by Michael Armbrust, Ali Ghodsi, Reynold Xin, Matei Zaharia and Arsalan Tavakoli-Shiraji in Company Blog The theme of this year's Data + AI Summit is that we are building the modern data stack with the lakehouse. A fundamental...
Frequently Asked Questions About the Data LakehouseAugust 30, 2021 by Michael Armbrust, Bharath Gowda, Reynold Xin, Matei Zaharia and Ali Ghodsi in Platform Blog Question Index What is a Data Lakehouse? What is a Data Lake? What is a Data Warehouse? How is a Data Lakehouse different...
Rise of the LakehouseMay 6, 2021 by Billy Bosworth and Ali Ghodsi in Data Strategy With the fast-moving evolution of the data lake, Billy Bosworth and Ali Ghodsi share their mutual thoughts on the top 5 common questions...
Spark + AI Summit Europe is Expanding and Getting a New Name: Data + AI Summit EuropeSeptember 1, 2020 by Ali Ghodsi, Reynold Xin and Matei Zaharia in Company Blog Back in 2013, we held the first Spark Summit — a gathering of the Apache Spark™ community with leading contributors and production users...
The data community raised a total of $101,626 to help organizations fight racial injustice. Thank you to all who donated!July 8, 2020 by Ali Ghodsi in Company Blog Our commitment to diversity and inclusion is inherent in our company values at Databricks, but recent events and protests around the world have...
Evolving the Databricks brandApril 28, 2020 by Matei Zaharia, Reynold Xin, Patrick Wendell, Ion Stoica, Andy Konwinski and Ali Ghodsi in Announcements Some brands start out as, well, brands. A lot of work goes into the concept and painting the picture before the business is...
Business Continuity at Databricks During COVID-19 CrisisMarch 17, 2020 by Ali Ghodsi in Company Blog Dear valued customer, As COVID-19 continues to impact our daily lives, we are thinking about those affected as well as the practitioners who...
What Is a Lakehouse?January 30, 2020 by Ben Lorica, Michael Armbrust, Reynold Xin, Matei Zaharia and Ali Ghodsi in Engineering Blog Read Building the Data Lakehouse to explore why lakehouses are the data architecture of the future with the father of the data warehouse...
Accelerating Innovation With Unified AnalyticsJune 5, 2018 by Ali Ghodsi in Platform Blog The AI Dilemma Artificial Intelligence (AI) has massive potential to drive disruptive innovations affecting most enterprises on the planet. However, most enterprises are...