Apache Spark 1.5 Preview Now Available in DatabricksAugust 18, 2015 by Reynold Xin and Michael Lumb in Product We are excited to announce that starting today, Apache Spark 1.5.0 is available as a preview in Databricks. Our users can now choose...
Helping the Democratization of Big DataAugust 5, 2015 by Ali Ghodsi in Company Blog When we started Databricks, we thought that extracting insights from big data was insanely difficult for no good reason. You almost needed an...
Guest blog: SequoiaDB Connector for Apache SparkAugust 3, 2015 by Tao Wang in Company Blog This is a guest blog from Tao Wang at SequoiaDB . He is the co-founder and CTO of SequoiaDB, leading its long-term technology...
Using 3rd Party Libraries in Databricks: Apache Spark Packages and Maven LibrariesJuly 28, 2015 by Burak Yavuz in Company Blog In an earlier post, we described how you can easily integrate your favorite IDE with Databricks to speed up your application development. In...
Introducing R Notebooks in DatabricksJuly 13, 2015 by Hossein Falaki in Product Apache Spark 1.4 was released on June 11 and one of the exciting new features was SparkR . I am happy to announce...
Announcing SparkHub: A Community Site for Apache SparkJuly 10, 2015 by Denny Lee in Announcements Today, we are happy to announce SparkHub , a service for the Apache Spark community to easily find the most relevant Spark resources...
Guest blog: PMML Support in Apache Spark's MLlibJuly 2, 2015 by Vincenzo Selvaggio in Engineering Blog This is a guest blog from our friend Vincenzo Selvaggio who contributed this feature. He is a Senior Java Technical Architect and Project...
MyFitnessPal Delivers New Feature, Speeds up Pipeline, and Boosts Team Productivity with DatabricksJuly 2, 2015 by Kavitha Mariappan and Dave Wang in Company Blog To learn more about how Databricks helped MyFitnessPal with analytics, check out an earlier article in Wall Street Journal (log-in required). We are...
Databricks Launches Second MOOC: Scalable Machine LearningJune 29, 2015 by Ameet Talwalkar and Anthony Joseph in Company Blog We have been working in collaboration with professors at UC Berkeley and UCLA to produce two freely available Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs)...
Guest blog: How Customers Win with Apache Spark on HadoopJune 17, 2015 by Nitin Bandugula in Company Blog This is a guest post from our friends at MapR. This blog summarizes my conversations over the last few months with users who...