Kent Marten

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Introducing Collations to Databricks

January 10, 2025/5 min read

Introducing Collations to Databricks

Predictive Optimization Automatically Delivers Faster Queries and Lower TCO

December 2, 2024/4 min read

Predictive Optimization Automatically Delivers Faster Queries and Lower TCO

Introducing Predictive Optimization for Statistics

November 20, 2024/4 min read

Introducing Predictive Optimization for Statistics

Databricks SQL performance improvements, 77% faster than 2022 launch.

November 7, 2024/6 min read

Season's Speedings: Databricks SQL Delivers 4x Performance Boost Over Two Years

Introducing the Open Variant Data Type in Delta Lake and Apache Spark

June 2, 2024/5 min read

Introducing the Open Variant Data Type in Delta Lake and Apache Spark

Acceleration Unlocked: DS3_v2 Instance Types on Azure now supported by Photon

May 1, 2023/2 min read

Acceleration Unlocked: DS3_v2 Instance Types on Azure now supported by Photon

Announcing the General Availability of Predictive I/O for Reads

April 25, 2023/4 min read

Announcing the General Availability of Predictive I/O for Reads

Supercharging H3 for Geospatial Analytics

January 12, 2023/11 min read

Supercharging H3 for Geospatial Analytics

Spatial Analytics at Any Scale With H3 and Photon

December 7, 2022/14 min read

Spatial Analytics at Any Scale With H3 and Photon

ArcGIS GeoAnalytics Engine in Databricks

December 6, 2022/15 min read

ArcGIS GeoAnalytics Engine in Databricks

Announcing Built-in H3 Expressions for Geospatial Processing and Analytics

September 14, 2022/10 min read

Announcing Built-in H3 Expressions for Geospatial Processing and Analytics

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May 2, 2022/12 min read

High Scale Geospatial Processing With Mosaic