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Predictive Optimization Automatically Delivers Faster Queries and Lower TCO

December 2, 2024 by Cindy Jiang, Don Jang, Naga Raju Bhanoori, Mostafa Mokhtar and Kent Marten in Platform
Predictive Optimization (PO) enhances the performance of Unity Catalog managed tables by intelligently optimizing data layouts, leading to significant improvements in query performance...

Databricks SQL Year in Review (Part I): AI-optimized Performance and Serverless Compute

January 18, 2024 by Jeremy Lewallen, Gaurav Saraf, Mostafa Mokhtar, Kevin Clugage and Joe Harris in Platform
This is part 1 of a blog series where we look back at the major areas of progress for Databricks SQL in 2023...

Improved Performance and Value With Databricks Photon and Azure Lasv3 Instances Using AMD 3rd Gen EPYC™ 7763v Processors

October 10, 2022 by Zach Christopherson, Tahir Fayyaz, Dilip Ramachandran, Shiva Gurumurthy and Mostafa Mokhtar in Engineering
Databricks has partnered with AMD to support a new chip that lets you run your queries faster, saving you time and money. Combining...

Reduce Time to Decision With the Databricks Lakehouse Platform and Latest Intel 3rd Gen Xeon Scalable Processors

May 17, 2022 by Swastik Chakraborty, Lakshman Chari, Nicolas Poggi, Robert Saxby and Mostafa Mokhtar in Platform
This is a collaborative post from Databricks and Intel. We thank Swastik Chakroborty,Regional Technical Sales Director-APJ, and Lakshman Chari, Cloud ISV Partner Manager...

Announcing Databricks Support for AWS Graviton2 With up to 3x Better Price-Performance

April 18, 2022 by Piyush Singh, Mostafa Mokhtar and Shankar Sivadasan in Partners
This blog was updated on September 1, 2022 to announce general availability of support for Graviton2 instances. Today, we are excited to announce...

Snowflake Claims Similar Price/Performance to Databricks, but Not So Fast!

November 15, 2021 by Mostafa Mokhtar, Reynold Xin and Matei Zaharia in Data Warehousing
On Nov 2, 2021, we announced that we set the official world record for the fastest data warehouse with our Databricks SQL lakehouse...

Databricks Sets Official Data Warehousing Performance Record

November 2, 2021 by Reynold Xin and Mostafa Mokhtar in Data Warehousing
Today, we are proud to announce that Databricks SQL has set a new world record in 100TB TPC-DS , the gold standard performance...