Posts by Joel Minnick

Last week, Gartner published the Magic Quadrant (MQ) for Cloud Database Management Systems, where Databricks was recognized as a Visionary in the market.1 This was the first time Databricks was included in a database-related Gartner Magic Quadrant. We believe this is due in large part to our investment in Delta Lake and its ability to...

Today, we announced the new SQL Analytics service to provide Databricks customers with a first-class experience for performing BI and SQL workloads directly on the data lake. This launch brings to life a new experience within Databricks that data analysts and data engineers are going to love. The service provides a dedicated SQL-native workspace, built-in...

Earlier this year, Databricks wrote a blog that outlined how more and more enterprises are adopting the lakehouse pattern. The blog created a massive amount of interest from technology enthusiasts. While lots of people praised it as the next-generation data architecture, some people thought the Lakehouse is the same thing as the data lake. Recently,...

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...