Databricks adds new SQL Analytics Workspace and Endpoint features, consolidating its acquisition of Redash and bolstering its "data lakehouse" marketing push.

Big data vendor Databricks unveiled SQL Analytics for running SQL queries on data lake systems as an alternative to data warehouses.

Databricks SQL isn’t open source, but it’s built on and supports several open-source technologies, including Apache Spark, Delta Lake and ANSI SQL.

Databricks, the champion of data lakehouse technology and its open storage format underpinnings, announced it set a world record for a data warehouse performance benchmark.

After conducting an analysis, the Converter starts converting the rival data warehouse into Databricks SQL by using a configuration-driven approach that is expected to account for differences ...