Bringing Lakehouse to the Citizen Data Scientist: Announcing the Acquisition of 8080 Labs
Transforming into a data-driven organization – which means data has permeated into every facet of your company – is critical for driving meaningful business outcomes. Data literacy is the new buzzword as organizations across industries focus on keeping up with consumer demands and driving innovation, all while meeting ever-evolving compliance measures. Even for organizations that...
Announcing Databricks Serverless SQL
Databricks SQL already provides a first-class user experience for BI and SQL directly on the data lake, and today, we are excited to announce another step in making data and AI simple with Databricks Serverless SQL. This new capability for Databricks SQL provides instant compute to users for their BI and SQL workloads, with minimal...
How Building Apache Zeppelin Led Me to Databricks
Today, I am excited to announce that I have officially joined Databricks as an Engineer on the Data Science team. This move comes after over a year of founding and running Staroid, a cloud-based platform that simplifies the delivery and deployment of open source projects at the enterprise level. I have been a heavy Apache...
Announcing the Databricks Beacons Program
With roots in academia and open source, we know much of Databricks’ success is due to the community- the data scientists, data engineers, developers, data architects, data analysts, open-source contributors and data evangelists alike. Today, we are proud to introduce Databricks Beacons, a global program that is our way to thank and celebrate those who...
Databricks Lecture Series at UC Berkeley School of Information
This is a collaborative post from Databricks and UC Berkeley. We thank Tia Foss, Director of Philanthropy, UC Berkeley School of Information, for her contributions. Databricks began in the computer labs of the University of California, Berkeley, where talented computer science graduate students, such as Matei Zaharia and Reynold Xin, realized that open-source, cloud-based scalable...
Improving Patient Insights With Textual ETL in the Lakehouse Paradigm
This is a collaborative post from Databricks and Forest Rim Technology. We thank Bill Inmon, Founder and CEO, and Mary Levins, Chief Data Officer, of Forest Rim for their contributions. The amount of healthcare data generated today is unprecedented and rapidly expanding with the growth in digital patient care. Yet much of the data...
Now in Public Preview: Orchestrate Multiple Tasks With Databricks Jobs
READ DOCUMENTATION As companies undertake more business intelligence (BI) and artificial intelligence (AI) initiatives, the need for simple, clear and reliable orchestration of data processing tasks has increased. Previously, Databricks customers had to choose whether to run these tasks all in one notebook or use another workflow tool and add to the overall complexity of...
A Shared Vision for Data Teams: Why Cubonacci Joined Databricks
Today, we are excited to announce that our company, Cubonacci, has joined the Databricks family. We founded Cubonacci in Amsterdam to enable businesses to build scalable and future-proof data science solutions. Our goal was to bring machine learning to the masses and we are excited to continue this mission through Databricks’ vision and strategy. More...
Announcing Photon Public Preview: The Next Generation Query Engine on the Databricks Lakehouse Platform
Today, we're excited to announce the availability of Photon in public preview. Photon is a native vectorized engine developed in C++ to dramatically improve query performance. All you have to do to benefit from Photon is turn it on. Photon will seamlessly coordinate work and resources and transparently accelerate portions of your SQL and Spark...
Congratulations to the 2021 Databricks Data Team Award Winners
During the Data + AI Summit (fka Spark + AI Summit), Databricks CEO Ali Ghodsi recognized four exceptional data teams for how they have used data, machine learning, and AI to solve some of the world’s toughest problems. The second annual Databricks Data Team Awards brought a diverse set of submissions, representing many industries, use...
