The first generation of Azure SQL Data Warehouse (SQL DW) was announced in 2015, and SQL DW "Gen 2" reached general availability in 2018. Today, at its Ignite confab on Orlando, Microsoft is ...

Databricks, a provider of big data analytics and AI solutions, has raised $1.6 billion at a $38 billion post-money valuation.

Microsoft's Apache Spark-based analytics platform has now gotten a series of enhancements centered around big data service integrations, while also expanding its availability to four new regions.

For streaming and event processing workloads, alternate big data analytics solutions on Azure like HDInsight or Azure Databricks should be used.

Databricks Lakehouse Platform combines cost-effective data storage with machine learning and data analytics, and it's available on AWS, Azure, and GCP. Could it be an affordable alternative for ...