Databricks Launches Data Sharing Initiative, Machine Learning Offering
Databricks continues to expand its portfolio of big data software around the Databricks Lakehouse Platform – all designed to unify all data, analytics and AI workloads. By Rick Whiting June 01, 2021, 06:22 PM EDT
Databricks has launched a project to create an open-source data sharing protocol for securely sharing data across organizations in real time, independent of the platform on which the data resides.
The Delta Sharing initiative, part of Databrick’s open-source Delta Lake project, has already attracted support from a number of data providers, including NASDAQ, S&P and Factset, and leading IT vendors including Amazon Web Services, Microsoft and Google Cloud, according to Databricks.
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Databricks, the commercial company founded around the popular Apache Spark data lake, is making a strike for new class workloads and enterprise data management jobs in its make-or-break IPO year.
Hawking technology news from the company’s Data + AI Summit, CEO Ali Ghodsi spoke to
The Register about the new technologies. Ghodsi said the firm s efforts to combine the order and SQL queries familiar to data warehousing with the schema-less architecture of data lakes would be pushed more aggressively against established vendors in the data management, analytics and data warehousing.
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Databricks CEO Ali Ghodsi and his cofounders werenât interested in starting a business, and even less interested in making a profit on the tech. Eight years later, at least three are billionaires.
Inside a 13th-floor boardroom in downtown San Francisco, the atmosphere was tense. It was November 2015, and Databricks, a two-year-old software company started by a group of seven Berkeley researchers, was long on buzz but short on revenue.
The directors awkwardly broached subjects that had been rehashed time and again. The startup had been trying to raise funds for five months, but venture capitalists were keeping it at armâs length, wary of its paltry sales. Seeing no other option, NEA partner Pete Sonsini, an existing investor, raised his hand to save the company with an emergency $30 million injection.
Fifth major open source project initiated by Databricks launches with broad support from data providers and analytical software vendors SAN FRANCISCO, May 26, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Today
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Databricks co-founders Ali Ghodsi, Matei Zaharia and Reynold Xin slated to deliver keynotes on data and machine learning product innovations and the rise of the lakehouse architecture
SAN FRANCISCO, May 19, 2021 /PRNewswire/
Databricks, the Data and AI company, today announced the full agenda and final lineup of featured speakers for the upcoming
Data + AI Summit (formerly Spark + AI Summit), taking place virtually May 24-28. Data + AI Summit is the global event for the data community, where tens of thousands of data teams from more than 160 countries will come together to share best practices, learn from experts throughout the industry, and get a first-hand look at what s new in Databricks Lakehouse Platform. This year, the Data + AI Summit theme is