Announcing SparkHub: A Community Site for Apache SparkJuly 10, 2015 by Denny Lee in Announcements Today, we are happy to announce SparkHub , a service for the Apache Spark community to easily find the most relevant Spark resources...
Guest blog: PMML Support in Apache Spark's MLlibJuly 2, 2015 by Vincenzo Selvaggio in Engineering Blog This is a guest blog from our friend Vincenzo Selvaggio who contributed this feature. He is a Senior Java Technical Architect and Project...
MyFitnessPal Delivers New Feature, Speeds up Pipeline, and Boosts Team Productivity with DatabricksJuly 2, 2015 by Kavitha Mariappan and Dave Wang in Company Blog To learn more about how Databricks helped MyFitnessPal with analytics, check out an earlier article in Wall Street Journal (log-in required). We are...
Databricks Launches Second MOOC: Scalable Machine LearningJune 29, 2015 by Ameet Talwalkar and Anthony Joseph in Company Blog We have been working in collaboration with professors at UC Berkeley and UCLA to produce two freely available Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs)...
Guest blog: How Customers Win with Apache Spark on HadoopJune 17, 2015 by Nitin Bandugula in Company Blog This is a guest post from our friends at MapR. This blog summarizes my conversations over the last few months with users who...
Guest blog: Zen and the Art of Apache Spark Maintenance with CassandraJune 16, 2015 by Russell Spitzer and Wayne Chan in Partners This is a guest post from our friends at DataStax. Apache Cassandra™ is a fully distributed, highly scalable database that allows users to...
Databricks is now Generally AvailableJune 15, 2015 by Ion Stoica and Matei Zaharia in Product We are excited to announce today, at Spark Summit 2015 , the general availability of the Databricks – a hosted data platform from...
Databricks and IBM Collaborate to Enhance Apache Spark Machine LearningJune 15, 2015 by Denny Lee in Partners At today’s Spark Summit , Databricks and IBM announced a joint effort to contribute key machine learning capabilities to the Apache Spark Project...
Making Databricks Better for Developers: IDE IntegrationJune 5, 2015 by Burak Yavuz in Product We have been working hard at Databricks to make our product more user-friendly for developers. Recently, we have added two new features that...
Simplify Machine Learning on Apache Spark with DatabricksJune 3, 2015 by Denny Lee in Product As many data scientists and engineers can attest, the majority of the time is spent not on the models themselves but on the...