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We are excited to announce that Azure Databricks is now in Microsoft’s Azure Government region, enabling new data and AI use cases for federal agencies, state and local governments, public universities, and government contractors to enable faster decisions, more accurate predictions, and unified and collaborative data analytics. More than a dozen federal agencies are building...

Our commitment to diversity and inclusion is inherent in our company values at Databricks, but recent events and protests around the world have reminded us that there’s much more we can do to bring awareness to racial injustice and drive meaningful change. This year’s theme at Spark + AI Summit was “DATA TEAMS UNITE!” and...

Databricks has a great partner ecosystem of over 450 partners that are critical to building and delivering the best data and AI solutions in the world for our joint customers.  We are proud of this collaboration and know it’s the result of the mutual commitment and investment that spans on-going training, solution development, field programs...

On the closing day of Spark + AI Summit, Databricks CEO Ali Ghodsi recognized three exceptional data teams for how they came together to solve a tough problem-- delivering impact, innovation, and helping to make the world a better place. These are the inaugural Databricks Data Team Awards, and we were blown away by the...

At today’s Spark + AI Summit 2020, we unveiled the next generation of the Databricks Data Science Workspace: An open and unified experience for modern data teams. Existing solutions make data teams choose from three bad options. Giving data scientists the freedom to use any open-source tools on their laptops doesn’t provide a clear path...

Watch Spark + AI Summit Keynotes here At today's Spark + AI Summit 2020, we announced that MLflow is becoming a Linux Foundation project. Two years ago, we launched MLflow, an open source machine learning platform to let teams reliably build and productionize ML applications. Since then, we have been humbled and excited by the...

Today, we announce that we are making a new whole genome regression method available to the open source bioinformatics community as part of Project Glow. Large cohorts of individuals with paired clinical and genome sequence data enable unprecedented insight into human disease biology. Population studies such as the UK Biobank, Genomics England, or Genome Asia...

This morning at Spark and AI Summit, we announced that Databricks has acquired Redash, the company behind the popular open source project of the same name. With this acquisition, Redash joins Apache Spark, Delta Lake, and MLflow to create a larger and more thriving open source system to give data teams best-in-class tools. I would...

Koalas was first introduced last year to provide data scientists using pandas with a way to scale their existing big data workloads by running them on Apache SparkTM without significantly modifying their code. Today at Spark + AI Summit 2020, we announced the release of Koalas 1.0. It now implements the most commonly used pandas...

Today, we announced Delta Engine, which ties together a 100% Apache Spark-compatible vectorized query engine to take advantage of modern CPU architecture with optimizations to Spark 3.0’s query optimizer and caching capabilities that were launched as part of Databricks Runtime 7.0. Together, these features significantly accelerate query performance on data lakes, especially those enabled by...