Azure Databricks Now Available in Azure Government (Public Preview)July 14, 2020 by David Cook, Andrew Ledford and Clinton Ford in Product We are excited to announce that Azure Databricks is now in Microsoft’s Azure Government region, enabling new data and AI use cases for...
The data community raised a total of $101,626 to help organizations fight racial injustice. Thank you to all who donated!July 9, 2020 by Ali Ghodsi in Company Blog Our commitment to diversity and inclusion is inherent in our company values at Databricks, but recent events and protests around the world have...
Databricks Announces 2020 North America Partner AwardsJune 30, 2020 by Brian Dirking in Partners Databricks has a great partner ecosystem of over 450 partners that are critical to building and delivering the best data and AI solutions...
Meet the 2020 Databricks Data Team Awards WinnersJune 26, 2020 by Hatim Shafique in Company Blog On the closing day of Spark + AI Summit, Databricks CEO Ali Ghodsi recognized three exceptional data teams for how they came together...
Introducing the Next-Generation Data Science WorkspaceJune 25, 2020 by Clemens Mewald, Matei Zaharia and Cyrielle Simeone in Product At today’s Spark + AI Summit 2020, we unveiled the next generation of the Databricks Data Science Workspace: An open and unified experience...
MLflow Joins the Linux Foundation to Become the Open Standard for Machine Learning PlatformsJune 25, 2020 by Clemens Mewald, Matei Zaharia and Cyrielle Simeone in Product Watch Spark + AI Summit Keynotes here At today's Spark + AI Summit 2020, we announced that MLflow is becoming a Linux Foundation...
Introducing GlowGR: An industrial-scale, ultra-fast and sensitive method for genetic association studiesJune 25, 2020 by Leland Barnard, Henry Davidge, Karen Feng, Joelle Mbatchou, Boris Boutkov, Kiavash Kianfar, Dr. Lukas Habegger, Jonathan Marchini, Dr. Jeff Reid, Evan Maxwell and Frank Austin Nothaft in Product Today, we announce that we are making a new whole genome regression method available to the open source bioinformatics community as part of...
Welcoming Redash to DatabricksJune 24, 2020 by Reynold Xin in Product This morning at Spark and AI Summit, we announced that Databricks has acquired Redash, the company behind the popular open source project of...
Introducing Koalas 1.0June 24, 2020 by Hyukjin Kwon, Takuya Ueshin and Xiao Li in Product Koalas was first introduced last year to provide data scientists using pandas with a way to scale their existing big data workloads by...
Introducing Photon EngineJune 24, 2020 by Adam Conway and Joel Minnick in Platform Blog Databricks Photon is now generally available on AWS and Azure. Today, we announced Photon Engine, which ties together a 100% Apache Spark-compatible vectorized...