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Data analytics unicorn Databricks Inc. and Google LLC’s cloud today unit announced a partnership that will integrate Databricks’ distributed query platform with Google’s BigQuery data warehouse.
The partnership will leverage the Google Kubernetes Engine to enable Databricks to work in a containerized cloud environment for the first time. Databricks users will be able to create a “lakehouse” – the company’s term for a hybrid data lake and data warehouse that can be used for data engineering, data science, machine learning and analytics simultaneously on Google Cloud’s network.
Databricks, which announced a massive $1 billion funding round two weeks ago, already has partnerships with cloud giants Amazon Web Services Inc. and Microsoft Corp. It has made a point of working with each partner to leverage the advantages of its platform. In the case of Google, the focus is on machine learning and deep learning tools and Google’s authorship of Kubernetes, an orch