Databricks Launches Second MOOC: Scalable Machine Learning
We have been working in collaboration with professors at UC Berkeley and UCLA to produce two freely available Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs)...
Understanding your Apache Spark Application Through Visualization
The greatest value of a picture is when it forces us to notice what we never expected to see. - John Tukey In...
A Look Back at Spark Summit 2015
UPDATE: Slides and videos from the Summit are now available! Check them out now! We are delighted about the success of Spark Summit...
Guest blog: How Customers Win with Apache Spark on Hadoop
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 Cassandra
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 Available
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 Learning
At today’s Spark Summit , Databricks and IBM announced a joint effort to contribute key machine learning capabilities to the Apache Spark Project...
Announcing Apache Spark 1.4
Today I’m excited to announce the general availability of Apache Spark 1.4! Spark 1.4 introduces SparkR, an R API targeted towards data scientists...
Announcing SparkR: R on Apache Spark
I am excited to announce that the upcoming Apache Spark 1.4 release will include SparkR, an R package that allows data scientists to...
Making Databricks Better for Developers: IDE Integration
We have been working hard at Databricks to make our product more user-friendly for developers. Recently, we have added two new features that...