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Hydrolix, the company transforming the economics of log data with its streaming data lake platform, is unveiling a new Apache Spark connector that democratizes the power of Databricks to customers’ ...

With the Hydrolix Spark Connector, Databricks users can use the Hydrolix streaming data lake to extract deeper insights faster and cheaper from their real-time and historical log data. According to a ...

The cloud-hosted environment, described by Databricks as being deployed by more than 150 firms, aims to simplify the use of the open-source cluster compute engine and cut the time spent developing, ...

Databricks, the company founded by the creators of Apache Spark, has formed a new partnership with SAP. The companies have collaborated on a Databricks-certified Apache Spark distribution offering for ...

The new capability supports tables, figures, and diagrams with spatial metadata, making documents searchable and actionable ...

As well as access control, Databricks 2.0 now offers use of the popular R statistical programming language, support for multiple versions of Spark, and notebook versioning. Spark started in 2009 as a ...

Companies that want to run traditional enterprise BI workloads but don’t want to involve a traditional data warehouse may be interested in the new Databricks SQL service that became generally ...