Today to kick off Spark Summit, Databricks announced a Serverless Platform for Apache Spark — welcome news for developers looking to reduce time spent on cluster management. The move to simplify ...

A decade ago, Ion Stoica and his colleagues at UC Berkeley's school of computing identified the roadblock to performing advanced analytics. The challenge at the time was what we then called Big Data.

In our data outlook for 2022, we posed the question of whether data clouds -- or cloud computing in general -- get easier this year. Our question was directed at the bewildering array of cloud ...

Apache Spark was the pinnacle of advanced analytics just a few years ago. As the primary developer of this technology, Databricks Inc. has played a key role both in its commercial adoption, in the ...

Databricks has introduced a new offering to simplify the management of Apache Spark workloads in the cloud. “Databricks Serverless” is a managed computing platform for Apache Spark that allows teams ...

Databricks Inc. today introduced a new serverless database called Lakebase that can process more than 10,000 queries per second. The service is based on PostgreSQL, a popular open-source relational ...

$1 Billion Deal: Databricks to Acquire Neon and Boost AI-Driven Databases Your email has been sent Databricks, a leading platform for data and AI solutions, has announced plans to acquire Neon, a ...

‘The era of AI-native, agent-driven applications is reshaping what a database must do. Neon proves it: Four out of every five databases on their platform are spun up by code, not humans,’ says ...

Data analytics platform Databricks said on Wednesday that it has agreed to acquire Neon, a startup building an open source alternative to AWS Aurora Postgres, for about $1 billion. Databricks said ...

The importance of databases to modern enterprise AI operations cannot be overstated. Data helps to train and ground AI, and multiple research reports show that without proper data, AI efforts tend to ...