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 ...

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 ...

Databricks Cloud is an Apache Spark implementation that runs on Amazon AWS and ... all of which are accessible via a single API that Scala, Python, and Java users can call. On top of this base ...

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’ ...

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.