Databricks announces a Spark cloud and $33M in venture capital

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, ...
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Databricks open-sources declarative ETL framework powering 90% faster pipeline builds

Today, at its annual Data + AI Summit, Databricks announced that it is open-sourcing its core declarative ETL framework as Apache Spark Declarative Pipelines, making it available to the entire Apache ...
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Hydrolix’s Apache Spark Connector Unlocks the Power of Databricks for Full-Fidelity Event Data

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’ ...
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Databricks co-founder Matei Zaharia wins ACM Prize and declares AGI is already here

Zaharia began building Apache Spark as a doctoral student at UC Berkeley in 2009, a faster alternative to Hadoop MapReduce, which had become the default framework for large-scale distributed data ...