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Acceleration Unlocked: DS3_v2 Instance Types on Azure now supported by Photon

At Databricks, we offer maximal flexibility for choosing compute for ETL and ML/AI workloads. Staying true to the theme of flexibility, we announce...
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Announcing the General Availability of Predictive I/O for Reads

Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of Predictive I/O for Databricks SQL (DB SQL) : a machine learning powered feature...
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Supercharging H3 for Geospatial Analytics

On the heels of the initial release of H3 support in Databricks Runtime (DBR ), we are happy to share ground-breaking performance improvements...
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Spatial Analytics at Any Scale With H3 and Photon

H3's global grid indexing system is driving new patterns for spatial analytics across a variety of geospatial use-cases. Recently, Databricks added built-in support...
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ArcGIS GeoAnalytics Engine in Databricks

December 7, 2022 by Kent Marten and Arif Masrur in Platform Blog
This is a collaborative post from Esri and Databricks. We thank Senior Solution Engineer Arif Masrur, Ph.D. at Esri for his contributions. Advances...
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Announcing Built-in H3 Expressions for Geospatial Processing and Analytics

The 11.2 Databricks Runtime is a milestone release for Databricks and for customers processing and analyzing geospatial data. The 11.2 release introduces 28...
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High Scale Geospatial Processing With Mosaic

Breaking through the scale barrier (discussing existing challenges) At Databricks, we are hyper-focused on supporting users along their data modernization journeys. A growing...
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Announcing CARTO’s Spatial Extension for Databricks -- Powering Geospatial Analysis for JLL

December 9, 2021 by Kent Marten and Javier de la Torre in Platform Blog
This is a collaborative post by Databricks and CARTO. We thank Javier de la Torre, Founder and Chief Strategy Officer at CARTO for...