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 ...

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 ...

But lack of native support for Python, the machine-learning language of choice, has been a weakness. Now, Snowflake is making big bets to court machine-learning experts and stave off Databricks.