For those of you just tuning in, Spark, an open source cluster computing framework, was originally developed by Matei Zaharia at U.C. Berkeley’s AMPLab in 2009, and later open-sourced and donated to ...

Founders: Ali Ghodsi (CEO), Matei Zaharia, Reynold Xin, Ion Stoica, Patrick Wendell, Andy Konwinski, Arsalan Tavakoli-Shiraji Launched: 2013 Headquarters: San Francisco Funding: $19 billion Valuation: ...

As data sources and volumes grow, and as a data-driven orientation is increasingly deemed to be a competitive necessity, the war between platform vendors to provide the primary repository for our data ...

Until now, access to the Databricks platform was primarily limited to engineers and data scientists with SQL or Python skills. Databricks One introduces a completely redesigned interface, simplified ...

Databricks Inc. says it’s trying to bring the power of big data analytics to every business worker with the launch of its new artificial intelligence-powered business intelligence tool, Databricks One ...

Automation and integration were key themes at Databricks’ annual customer conference, as it showed off new generative and agentic AI features coming to its cloud data lakehouse platform. At Databricks ...

Databricks landed the biggest acquisition of the generative AI era to date when it bought MosaicML in June for $1.3 billion. It was a nearly 6x markup on MosaicML’s previous valuation of $222 million ...