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

Databricks is a cloud-based big-data processing platform built on Spark, with standard libraries such as Spark SQL and MLlib, and a multi-user graphical interface.

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

Together, these Spark 3.0 enhancements deliver an overall 2x boost to Spark SQL’s performance relative to Spark 2.4. But according to Databricks, on 60 out of 102 queries, the speedups ranged from 2x ...

Databricks SQL is a key component in the company’s ambition to construct a data lakehouse architecture that blends the best of data lakes, which are based on object storage systems, and traditional ...

Big data startup Databricks keeps humming along, announcing on Monday a large round of venture capital and a new cloud service that aims to seed adoption of Spark -- a framework it says is faster ...

AI and data analytics company Databricks today announced the launch of SQL Analytics, a new service that makes it easier for data analysts to run their standard SQL queries directly on data lakes ...