Introducing Apache Spark 2.0July 26, 2016 by Reynold Xin, Michael Lumb and Matei Zaharia in Engineering Today, we're excited to announce the general availability of Apache Spark 2.0 on Databricks. This release builds on what the community has learned...
The New MongoDB Connector for Apache Spark In Action: Building a Movie Recommendation EngineJuly 21, 2016 by Sam Weaver in Company Try this notebook in Databricks This is a repost of a blog from our friends at MongoDB . Sam is the Product Manager...
Code 4 San Francisco Hack Nite HighlightsJuly 20, 2016 by Jules Damji in Company Try this notebook in Databricks For a speechwriter, JFK’s words “Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can...
Databricks Bi-Weekly Digest: 7/18/16July 18, 2016 by Jules Damji in Engineering Today, we're kicking off a new series: the Databricks Bi-Weekly Digest. Our goal with this digest is to summarize Spark related content, compiled...
A Tale of Three Apache Spark APIs: RDDs vs DataFrames and DatasetsJuly 14, 2016 by Jules Damji in Engineering Of all the developers' delight, none is more attractive than a set of APIs that make developers productive, that is easy to use...
Apache SparkR On-Demand Webinar and FAQJuly 12, 2016 by Dave Wang in Company Two months ago we held a live webinar – Enabling Exploratory Analysis of Large Data with Apache Spark and R – to demonstrate...
SparkR Tutorial at useR 2016July 7, 2016 by Hossein Falaki and Shivaram Venkataraman in Solutions AMPLab and Databricks gave a tutorial on SparkR at the useR conference. The conference was held from June 27 - June 30 at...
New eBook Released: Lessons for Large-Scale Machine Learning Deployments on Apache SparkJuly 6, 2016 by Dave Wang in Company We are excited to announce that the third eBook in our technical blog book series, Lessons for Large-Scale Machine Learning Deployments on Apache...
Edmunds.com Leverages Databricks to Improve Vehicle Data Quality and Customer ExperienceJuly 4, 2016 by Dave Wang in Company We are happy to announce that Edmunds.com has deployed Databricks to simplify the management of their Apache Spark clusters and perform ad-hoc analysis...
Introducing Getting Started with Apache Spark on DatabricksJune 30, 2016 by Jules Damji and Denny Lee in Company We are proud to introduce the Getting Started with Apache Spark on Databricks Guide . This step-by-step guide illustrates how to leverage the...