Python was already the most popular language in Spark before the latest batch of improvements (and Databricks and the Apache Spark community aren’t done). So it’s interesting to note the level of ...

In contrast, Databricks Apps is easy to build and deploy, and has an “open approach,” with Python as its primary language, Niyogi explained. If users know Python, they can build an app in as ...

Databricks has announced a major new update to the popular data analytics cluster framework Apache Spark, adding support for the R statistical programming language in an effort to make life easier for ...

At this stage, Databricks Apps only supports Python frameworks. However, Niyogi noted that the company is working to expand to more tools, languages and frameworks, making secure app creation ...

Databricks One offers a simple, code-free environment that lets teams—from marketing to legal—generate powerful AI-driven insights from secure corporate data.

Databricks landed the biggest acquisition of the generative AI era to date when it bought MosaicML in June for $1.3 billion. It was a nearly 6x markup on MosaicML’s previous valuation of $222 ...

With George Gilbert, Rob Strechay and Andy Thurai. The recent Databricks Data+AI Summit attracted a large audience and, like Snowflake Summit, featured a strong focus on large language models ...

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 ...

Databricks co-founder and CEO Ali Ghodsi explained that when he asked ... of Databricks’ existing Delta Live Tables framework for implementing data transformation and ETL in either SQL or Python.