Guest blog: How Customers Win with Apache Spark on Hadoop
This is a guest post from our friends at MapR. This blog summarizes my conversations over the last few months with users who...
Guest blog: Zen and the Art of Apache Spark Maintenance with Cassandra
This is a guest post from our friends at DataStax. Apache Cassandra™ is a fully distributed, highly scalable database that allows users to...
Databricks is now Generally Available
We are excited to announce today, at Spark Summit 2015 , the general availability of the Databricks – a hosted data platform from...
Databricks and IBM Collaborate to Enhance Apache Spark Machine Learning
At today’s Spark Summit , Databricks and IBM announced a joint effort to contribute key machine learning capabilities to the Apache Spark Project...
Announcing Apache Spark 1.4
Today I’m excited to announce the general availability of Apache Spark 1.4! Spark 1.4 introduces SparkR, an R API targeted towards data scientists...
Announcing SparkR: R on Apache Spark
I am excited to announce that the upcoming Apache Spark 1.4 release will include SparkR, an R package that allows data scientists to...
Making Databricks Better for Developers: IDE Integration
We have been working hard at Databricks to make our product more user-friendly for developers. Recently, we have added two new features that...
Simplify Machine Learning on Apache Spark with Databricks
As many data scientists and engineers can attest, the majority of the time is spent not on the models themselves but on the...
Statistical and Mathematical Functions with DataFrames in Apache Spark
We introduced DataFrames in Apache Spark 1.3 to make Apache Spark much easier to use. Inspired by data frames in R and Python...
Databricks Launches MOOC: Data Science on Apache Spark
For the past several months, we have been working in collaboration with professors from the University of California Berkeley and University of California...