What’s maybe more exciting, though, is something Databricks calls Project Lightspeed, which the company describes as the next generation of the Spark streaming engine.

Unveiled last June, the Apache Spark cloud-hosted platform from Databricks has now opened its doors for business.

First created as part of a research project at UC Berkeley AMPLab, Spark is an open source project in the big data space, built for sophisticated analytics, speed, and ease of use. It unifies critical ...

The June update to Apache Spark brought support for R, a significant enhancement that opens the big data platform to a large audience of new potential users. Support for R in Spark 1.4 also gives ...

The Apache Spark community has improved support for Python to such a great degree over the past few years that Python is now a “first-class” language, and no longer a “clunky” add-on as it once was, ...

Databricks claims that Delta, which is now part of the Spark-based Databricks Runtime, improves extract/transform/load operations and other data-preparation performance up to 100 times through ...

Databricks Cloud will provide Spark-based streaming analysis as a service Taking on Google, Databricks plans to offer its own cloud service for analyzing live data streams, one based on the Apache ...

What's maybe more exciting, though, is something Databricks calls Project Lightspeed, which the company describes as the next generation of the Spark streaming engine. Databricks argues that as more ...