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, ...

"From now on you'll be able to code and do your explorative analysis and write your jobs in Databricks in R - that's in addition to the languages that we already support, which are Python ...

Analysts say that the chess match between Snowflake and Databricks isn’t about big data analytics anymore, but about becoming ...

Databricks has announced a major new update ... As well as support for Python 3, Apache Spark 1.4 allows R users to work directly on large datasets via the SparkR R API. With over two million ...

And those familiar with Apache Spark will tend to gravitate ... and analytics tools. The fact that Databricks can run Python, Spark Scholar, SQL, NC SQL, and more will certainly make it attractive ...

Databricks is significant for providing, originally, a cloud-based platform for data engineering on Apache Spark, and then augmenting it with storage and pioneering the data lakehouse concept.

By bringing together the original creators of Apache Iceberg and Linux Foundation Delta Lake, the two leading open source lakehouse formats, Databricks will lead the way with data compatibility so ...

Databricks pioneered the lakehouse architecture ... lake and were specifically designed for open source engines such as Apache Spark™, Trino and Presto. To address these challenges, Databricks ...