The cloud-hosted environment, described by Databricks as being deployed by more than 150 firms, aims to simplify the use of the open-source cluster compute engine and cut the time spent developing, ...

Scott Guthrie, Microsoft EVP of Cloud & Enterprise. Microsoft Azure customers interested in parsing large amounts of data to improve their businesses will soon be able to use Azure Databricks, ...

The immensely popular open-source cluster computing framework Apache Spark has just reached version 2.0, according to an announcement by the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) yesterday. Spark’s ...

Along with phenomena such as container technology Docker, Apache Spark has emerged as a new darling of the open-source world, with widespread take-up by data teams and developers, backed by a highly ...

Invented eight years ago and intensively commercialized over the past several years, Apache Spark has become a core power tool for data scientists and other developers working sophisticated projects ...

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At a Spark Summit 2017 conference this week, Databricks announced that it will be making an instance of the Apache Spark in-memory computing framework available as a managed cloud service running on ...