Databricks co-founder wins prestigious ACM award, says 'AGI is here already'

Matei Zaharia has won the top honor from the Association for Computing Machinery. Now he's working on AI for research and ...

Spark creator bags computing gong for making big data a little bit smaller

When Zaharia started work on Spark around 2010, analyzing "big data" generally meant using MapReduce, the Java-based ...
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Databricks Donates Declarative Pipelines to Apache Spark™ Open Source Project

Spark Declarative Pipelines provides an easier way to define and execute data pipelines for both batch and streaming ETL workloads across any Apache Spark-supported data source, including cloud ...
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Databricks' Spark Could Light SAP's Fire

SAP HANA seems to have taken a bit of a public beating lately, namely because its creator, Vishal Sikka, and several other notable executives left the company. And while some might speculate the ...
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Databricks and SAP Partner on Spark Distribution Integrated with HANA

Databricks, the company founded by the creators of Apache Spark, has formed a new partnership with SAP. The companies have collaborated on a Databricks-certified Apache Spark distribution offering for ...
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Databricks Receives $60 Million in Funding to Strengthen Commitment to Spark

Databricks is receiving $60 million in a Series C funding round led by New Enterprise Associates (NEA), boosting its commitment to Apache Spark and the Databricks data platform. Also participating in ...