Databricks Delta: Now Available in Preview as Part of Microsoft Azure Databricks
Bringing unprecedented reliability and performance to cloud data lakes Designed by Databricks in collaboration with Microsoft, Azure Databricks combines the best of Databricks’ Apache SparkTM-based cloud service and Microsoft Azure. The integrated service provides the Databricks Unified Analytics Platform integrated with the Azure cloud platform, encompassing the Azure Portal; Azure Active Directory; and other data...
Announcing Databricks Runtime 4.1
We have recently shipped the new Databricks Runtime version 4.1 powered by Apache Spark™. Version 4.1 brings improved performance on read/write from sources like S3 or Parquet, improved caching, and a great deal of quality and feature improvements for the preview of Databricks Delta focused on faster query execution and adaptive schema and type validation....