Introducing the Open Variant Data Type in Delta Lake and Apache Spark
We are excited to announce a new data type called variant for semi-structured data. Variant provides an order of magnitude performance improvements compared...
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Acceleration Unlocked: DS3_v2 Instance Types on Azure now supported by Photon
At Databricks, we offer maximal flexibility for choosing compute for ETL and ML/AI workloads. Staying true to the theme of flexibility, we announce...
Announcing the General Availability of Predictive I/O for Reads
Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of Predictive I/O for Databricks SQL (DB SQL) : a machine learning powered feature...
Supercharging H3 for Geospatial Analytics
On the heels of the initial release of H3 support in Databricks Runtime (DBR ), we are happy to share ground-breaking performance improvements...
Spatial Analytics at Any Scale With H3 and Photon
H3's global grid indexing system is driving new patterns for spatial analytics across a variety of geospatial use-cases. Recently, Databricks added built-in support...
ArcGIS GeoAnalytics Engine in Databricks
This is a collaborative post from Esri and Databricks. We thank Senior Solution Engineer Arif Masrur, Ph.D. at Esri for his contributions. Advances...
Announcing Built-in H3 Expressions for Geospatial Processing and Analytics
The 11.2 Databricks Runtime is a milestone release for Databricks and for customers processing and analyzing geospatial data. The 11.2 release introduces 28...
High Scale Geospatial Processing With Mosaic
Breaking through the scale barrier (discussing existing challenges) At Databricks, we are hyper-focused on supporting users along their data modernization journeys. A growing...
Announcing CARTO’s Spatial Extension for Databricks -- Powering Geospatial Analysis for JLL
This is a collaborative post by Databricks and CARTO. We thank Javier de la Torre, Founder and Chief Strategy Officer at CARTO for...