Introducing Collations to Databricks
SELECT 'Hello world!' COLLATE UNICODE, 'Zdravo svete!' COLLATE SR, 'Γειά σου, Κόσμε!' COLLATE EL, 'Здравствуй, мир!' COLLATE RU, '你好, 世界!' COLLATE ZH, 'Bonjour...
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Predictive Optimization Automatically Delivers Faster Queries and Lower TCO
Predictive Optimization (PO) enhances the performance of Unity Catalog managed tables by intelligently optimizing data layouts, leading to significant improvements in query performance...
Introducing Predictive Optimization for Statistics
We are excited to introduce the gated Public Preview of Predictive Optimization for statistics. Announced at the Data + AI Summit, Predictive Optimization...
Season's Speedings: Databricks SQL Delivers 4x Performance Boost Over Two Years
As the season of giving approaches, we at Databricks have been making our list and checking it twice--but instead of toys and treats...
Introducing the Open Variant Data Type in Delta Lake and Apache Spark
We are excited to announce a new data type called variant for semi-structured data. Variant provides an order of magnitude performance improvements compared...
Acceleration Unlocked: DS3_v2 Instance Types on Azure now supported by Photon
At Databricks, we offer maximal flexibility for choosing compute for ETL and ML/AI workloads. Staying true to the theme of flexibility, we announce...
Announcing the General Availability of Predictive I/O for Reads
Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of Predictive I/O for Databricks SQL (DB SQL) : a machine learning powered feature...
Supercharging H3 for Geospatial Analytics
On the heels of the initial release of H3 support in Databricks Runtime (DBR ), we are happy to share ground-breaking performance improvements...
Spatial Analytics at Any Scale With H3 and Photon
H3's global grid indexing system is driving new patterns for spatial analytics across a variety of geospatial use-cases. Recently, Databricks added built-in support...
ArcGIS GeoAnalytics Engine in Databricks
This is a collaborative post from Esri and Databricks. We thank Senior Solution Engineer Arif Masrur, Ph.D. at Esri for his contributions. Advances...