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By Customer Demand: Databricks and Snowflake Integration

Today, we are proud to announce a partnership between Snowflake and Databricks that will help our customers further unify Big Data and AI...
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Databricks Delta: A Unified Data Management System for Real-time Big Data

Combining the best of data warehouses, data lakes and streaming For an in-depth look and demo, join the webinar . Today we are...
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Arbitrary Stateful Processing in Apache Spark’s Structured Streaming

October 17, 2017 by Bill Chambers and Jules Damji in Engineering Blog
This is the seventh post in a multi-part series about how you can perform complex streaming analytics using Apache Spark and Structured Streaming...
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Best Practices for Coarse Grained Data Security in Databricks

August 23, 2017 by Bill Chambers and Jules Damji in Platform Blog
At Databricks, we work with hundreds of companies, all pushing the bleeding edge in their respective industries. We want to share patterns for...
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Sharing Knowledge with the Community in a Preview of Apache Spark: The Definitive Guide

Apache Spark has seen immense growth over the past several years. The size and scale of this Spark Summit is a true reflection...
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Transactional Writes to Cloud Storage on Databricks

In another blog post published today , we showed the top five reasons for choosing S3 over HDFS. With the dominance of simple...
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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...
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Taking Apache Spark’s Structured Streaming to Production

This is the fifth post in a multi-part series about how you can perform complex streaming analytics using Apache Spark. At Databricks, we’ve...
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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...
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Databricks Launches a Comprehensive Guide for Its Product and Apache Spark

November 10, 2016 by Bill Chambers in Company Blog
We are proud to announce the launch of a new online guide for Databricks and Apache Spark at docs.databricks.com . Our goal is...
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Writing Data Engineering Pipelines in Apache Spark on Databricks

September 6, 2016 by Bill Chambers in Company Blog
Try this notebook in Databricks This is part 3 of a 3 part series providing a gentle introduction to writing Apache Spark applications...
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Building Data Science Applications on Databricks

June 28, 2016 by Bill Chambers in Company Blog
Try this notebook in Databricks This is part 2 of a 3 part series providing a gentle introduction to writing Apache Spark applications...
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An Introduction to Writing Apache Spark Applications on Databricks

June 15, 2016 by Bill Chambers in Company Blog
Try this notebook in Databricks This is part 1 of a 3 part series providing a gentle introduction to writing Apache Spark applications...
Engineering blog

On-Time Flight Performance with GraphFrames for Apache Spark

Introduction Graph structures are a more intuitive approach to many classes of data problems. Whether traversing social networks, restaurant recommendations, or flight paths...