Frequently Asked Questions About the Data LakehouseAugust 30, 2021 by Michael Armbrust, Bharath Gowda, Reynold Xin, Matei Zaharia and Ali Ghodsi in Platform Blog Question Index What is a Data Lakehouse? What is a Data Lake? What is a Data Warehouse? How is a Data Lakehouse different...
How We Achieved High-bandwidth Connectivity With BI ToolsAugust 11, 2021 by Bogdan Ionut Ghit, Juliusz Sompolski, Stefania Leone and Reynold Xin in Platform Blog Databricks SQL is now generally available on AWS and Azure. Business Intelligence (BI) tools such as Tableau and Microsoft Power BI are notoriously...
Introducing Apache Spark™ 3.1March 2, 2021 by Hyukjin Kwon, Wenchen Fan, Xiao Li and Reynold Xin in Engineering Blog We are excited to announce the availability of Apache Spark 3.1 on Databricks as part of Databricks Runtime 8.0 . We want to...
Spark + AI Summit Europe is Expanding and Getting a New Name: Data + AI Summit EuropeSeptember 1, 2020 by Ali Ghodsi, Reynold Xin and Matei Zaharia in Company Blog Back in 2013, we held the first Spark Summit — a gathering of the Apache Spark™ community with leading contributors and production users...
Welcoming Redash to DatabricksJune 24, 2020 by Reynold Xin in Product This morning at Spark and AI Summit, we announced that Databricks has acquired Redash, the company behind the popular open source project of...
Introducing Apache Spark 3.0June 18, 2020 by Matei Zaharia, Reynold Xin, Xiao Li, Wenchen Fan and Yin Huai in Product We’re excited to announce that the Apache Spark TM 3.0.0 release is available on Databricks as part of our new Databricks Runtime 7.0...
Evolving the Databricks brandApril 28, 2020 by Matei Zaharia, Reynold Xin, Patrick Wendell, Ion Stoica, Andy Konwinski and Ali Ghodsi in Announcements Some brands start out as, well, brands. A lot of work goes into the concept and painting the picture before the business is...
What Is a Lakehouse?January 30, 2020 by Ben Lorica, Michael Armbrust, Reynold Xin, Matei Zaharia and Ali Ghodsi in Engineering Blog Read Building the Data Lakehouse to explore why lakehouses are the data architecture of the future with the father of the data warehouse...
Solving the World’s Toughest Problems with the Growing Open Source Ecosystem and DatabricksJanuary 23, 2020 by Reynold Xin in Platform Blog We started Databricks in 2013 in a tiny little office in Berkeley with the belief that data has the potential to solve the...
Delta Lake Now Hosted by the Linux Foundation to Become the Open Standard for Data LakesOctober 15, 2019 by Michael Armbrust and Reynold Xin in Platform Blog Get an early preview of O'Reilly's new ebook for the step-by-step guidance you need to start using Delta Lake. At today’s Spark +...