Guest blog: SequoiaDB Connector for Apache Spark
This is a guest blog from Tao Wang at SequoiaDB . He is the co-founder and CTO of SequoiaDB, leading its long-term technology...
Using 3rd Party Libraries in Databricks: Apache Spark Packages and Maven Libraries
In an earlier post, we described how you can easily integrate your favorite IDE with Databricks to speed up your application development. In...
Introducing R Notebooks in Databricks
Apache Spark 1.4 was released on June 11 and one of the exciting new features was SparkR . I am happy to announce...
Announcing SparkHub: A Community Site for Apache Spark
Today, we are happy to announce SparkHub , a service for the Apache Spark community to easily find the most relevant Spark resources...
MyFitnessPal Delivers New Feature, Speeds up Pipeline, and Boosts Team Productivity with Databricks
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 Learning
We have been working in collaboration with professors at UC Berkeley and UCLA to produce two freely available Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs)...
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...