Evolving the Databricks brandApril 29, 2020 by Matei Zaharia, Reynold Xin, Patrick Wendell, Arsalan Tavakoli-Shiraji, Ion Stoica, Andy Konwinski and Ali Ghodsi in Announcements Some brands start out as, well, brands. A lot of work goes into the concept and painting the picture before the business is...
Introducing Glow: An Open-Source Toolkit for Large-Scale Genomic AnalysisOctober 18, 2019 by Frank Austin Nothaft, Karen Feng, Henry Davidge, Ion Stoica, Dr. Jeff Reid, Dr. Lukas Habegger, Evan Maxwell, Leland Barnard and Kiavash Kianfar in Announcements The key to solving some of today’s most challenging medical problems lies in the analysis of genomics data. Understanding the impact of the...
Accelerating Discovery with a Unified Analytics Platform for GenomicsJune 6, 2018 by Ion Stoica, Frank Austin Nothaft, Ram Sriharsha and Michael Ortega in Company Blog Today we are proud to introduce the Databricks Unified Analytics Platform for Genomics. With a unified platform for genomic data processing, tertiary analytics...
Databricks Community Edition is now Generally AvailableJune 7, 2016 by Ion Stoica in Company Blog We are excited to announce the General Availability (GA) of Databricks Community Edition (DCE). As a free version of the Databricks service, DCE...
New Content in Databricks Community EditionApril 12, 2016 by Ion Stoica in Engineering Blog At the Spark Summit New York , we announced Databricks Community Edition (CE) beta. CE is a free version of the Databricks service...
Introducing Databricks Community Edition: Apache Spark for AllFebruary 17, 2016 by Ion Stoica and Matei Zaharia in Company Blog As developers at heart, we at Databricks are committed to the development of Apache Spark and the continued growth of the community. Today...
Databricks is now Generally AvailableJune 15, 2015 by Ion Stoica and Matei Zaharia in Company Blog We are excited to announce today, at Spark Summit 2015 , the general availability of the Databricks – a hosted data platform from...
Analyzing Apache Access Logs with DatabricksApril 21, 2015 by Ion Stoica and Vida Ha in Company Blog Databricks provides a powerful platform to process, analyze, and visualize big and small data in one place. In this blog, we will illustrate...
The Easiest Way to Run Apache Spark JobsApril 16, 2015 by Ion Stoica in Company Blog Recently, Databricks added a new feature, Jobs, to our cloud service. You can find a detailed overview of this feature here . This...
Databricks: Making Big Data EasyJuly 14, 2014 by Ion Stoica in Company Blog Our vision at Databricks is to make big data easy so that we enable every organization to turn its data into value. At...
Apache Spark Now a Top-level Apache ProjectMarch 2, 2014 by Ion Stoica in Engineering Blog We are delighted with the recent announcement of the Apache Software Foundation that Apache Spark has become a top-level Apache project. This is...
Apache Spark and Hadoop: Working TogetherJanuary 21, 2014 by Ion Stoica in Engineering Blog We are often asked how does Apache Spark fits in the Hadoop ecosystem , and how one can run Spark in a existing...
Databricks and Cloudera Partner to Support Apache SparkOctober 28, 2013 by Ion Stoica in Company Blog Today, Cloudera announced that it will distribute and support Apache Spark. We are very excited about this announcement, and what it brings to...
Databricks and the Apache Spark PlatformOctober 27, 2013 by Ion Stoica and Matei Zaharia in Company Blog When we announced that the original team behind Apache Spark is starting a company around the project, we got a lot of excited...