Enterprises have been collecting ever-larger amounts of data with the goal of extracting insights and creating value. Yet despite a few innovative companies...

The Strata + Hadoop World Conference in San Jose last week was abuzz with "putting data to work" in keeping with this year's...

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Today, we are excited to announce a new DataFrame API designed to make big data processing even easier for a wider audience. When...

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We're really excited to share that Automatic Labs has selected Databricks as its preferred big data processing platform. Automatic Labs needed to run...

Today we are happy to announce that the complete Learning Spark book is available from O’Reilly in e-book form with the print copy...

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Note: Starting Spark 1.3, SchemaRDD will be renamed to DataFrame. In this blog post, we introduce Spark SQL’s JSON support, a feature we have been working on at Databricks to make it dramatically easier to query and create JSON data in Spark. With the prevalence of web and mobile applications, JSON has become the de-facto interchange format for web service API’s as well as long-term storage. With existing tools, users often engineer complex pipelines to read