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What’s new with Unity Catalog at Data and AI Summit 2023

The fundamental principles of governance – accountability, compliance, quality, and transparency – that are essential for data management have now become equally imperative...
Platform blog

Extending Databricks Unity Catalog with an Open Apache Hive Metastore API

Today, we are excited to announce the preview of a Hive Metastore (HMS) interface for Databricks Unity Catalog , which allows any software...
Platform blog

What's new with Databricks Unity Catalog at the Data+AI Summit 2022

Update: Unity Catalog is now generally available on AWS and Azure. Today we are excited to announce that Unity Catalog, a unified governance...
Platform blog

Introducing Delta Sharing: An Open Protocol for Secure Data Sharing

Update: Delta Sharing is now generally available on AWS and Azure. Get an early preview of O'Reilly's new ebook for the step-by-step guidance...
Engineering blog

Simplify Python environment management on Databricks Runtime for Machine Learning using %pip and %conda

June 17, 2020 by Todd Greenstein in Engineering Blog
Today we announce the release of %pip and %conda notebook magic commands to significantly simplify python environment management in Databricks Runtime for Machine...
Company blog

YipitData Example Highlights Benefits of Databricks integration with AWS Glue

At Databricks, we have partnered with the team at Amazon Web Services (AWS) to provide a seamless integration with the AWS Glue Metastore...
Company blog

Announcing Databricks Runtime 5.4

June 20, 2019 by Todd Greenstein in Company Blog
Databricks is pleased to announce the release of Databricks Runtime 5.4. This release includes Apache Spark 2.4.3 along with several important improvements and...
Platform blog

Introducing Databricks Library Utilities for Notebooks

Databricks has introduced a new feature, Library Utilities for Notebooks, as part of Databricks Runtime version 5.1. It allows you to install and...
Company blog

Announcing Databricks Runtime 5.0

November 18, 2018 by Todd Greenstein in Company Blog
We’re excited to announce the general availability of Databricks Runtime 5.0. Included in this release is Spark 2.4 . This release offers substantial...
Company blog

Announcing Databricks Runtime 4.3

August 27, 2018 by Todd Greenstein in Company Blog
I'm pleased to announce the release of Databricks Runtime 4.3, powered by Apache Spark. We've packed this release with an assortment of new...
Company blog

Announcing Databricks Runtime 4.2!

July 18, 2018 by Todd Greenstein in Company Blog
We’re excited to announce Databricks Runtime 4.2, powered by Apache Spark™. Version 4.2 includes updated Spark internals, new features, and major performance upgrades...