When Swedish-Iranian computer scientist Ali Ghodsi arrived at the University of California, Berkeley for a one-year research opportunity, he had no intention of staying with the university or founding ...

Matei Zaharia has won the top honor from the Association for Computing Machinery. Now he's working on AI for research and ...

Big-data company Databricks Inc. today announced the immediate availability of a dedicated data intelligence platform for the energy industry, designed to enable customers in the energy sector to ...

When Zaharia started work on Spark around 2010, analyzing "big data" generally meant using MapReduce, the Java-based ...

Databricks is an innovative data analytics platform designed to simplify the process of building big data and artificial intelligence (AI) solutions. It was founded by the original creators of Apache ...

Databricks Inc. today agreed to acquire Tabular Technologies Inc., developer of a universal storage platform based on the Apache Iceberg standard. The move signals stepped-up efforts by Databricks to ...

The San Francisco-based data analytics company Databricks has raised a stunning $10 billion funding round, which values the company at $62 billion and likely puts it on a path toward an IPO. The size ...

Databricks announced its intention to acquire Arcion, an enterprise data replication specialist and a part of the Databricks Ventures portfolio. The acquisition, valued at over $100 million, is set to ...

Databricks wants to make it possible to take humans out of the loop entirely when it comes to running complicated data analysis jobs. The company, which offers a commercial version of Spark, now ...