Working with Nested Data Using Higher Order Functions in SQL on Databricks
View this notebook on Databricks Nested data types offer Databricks customers and Apache Spark users powerful ways to manipulate structured data. In particular...
Databricks Runtime 3.0 Beta Delivers Cloud Optimized Apache Spark
A major value Databricks provides is the automatic provisioning, configuration, and tuning of clusters of machines that process data. Running on these machines...
Persistent Clusters: Simplifying Cluster Management for Analytics
Today we are excited to announce persistent clusters for analytics in Databricks. With persistent clusters, users no longer need to go through the...
Query Watchdog: Handling Disruptive Queries in Spark SQL
Read Rise of the Data Lakehouse to explore why lakehouses are the data architecture of the future with the father of the data...
Delivering a Personalized Shopping Experience with Apache Spark on Databricks
This is a guest blog from our friends at Dollar Shave Club. Dollar Shave Club (DSC) is a men's lifestyle brand and e-commerce...
How Apache Spark on Databricks is Taming the Wild West of Wi-Fi
iPass is the world’s largest Wi-Fi provider, yet we don’t own a single hotspot. You can think of us as the Uber of...
Anonymizing Datasets at Scale Leveraging Databricks Interoperability
A key challenge for data-driven companies across a wide range of industries is how to leverage the benefits of analytics at scale when...
Announcing the Spark Live 2017 World Tour
Due to the enthusiasm and positive feedback from last year’s Spark Live tour, we will be hitting the road again in 2017 to...
Integrating Your Central Apache Hive Metastore with Apache Spark on Databricks
Databricks provides a managed Apache Spark platform to simplify running production applications, real-time data exploration, and infrastructure complexity. A key piece of the...
Delivering Exceptional Care Through Data-Driven Medicine
This is a guest blog from our friends at Distal. Today, 96% of U.S. health care providers use electronic health records (EHRs) -...