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DataBricks Announces Spark SQL for Manipulating Structured Data Using Spark

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Spark creator bags computing gong for making big data a little bit smaller

When Zaharia started work on Spark around 2010, analyzing "big data" generally meant using MapReduce, the Java-based ...
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Databricks Receives $60 Million in Funding to Strengthen Commitment to Spark

Databricks is receiving $60 million in a Series C funding round led by New Enterprise Associates (NEA), boosting its commitment to Apache Spark and the Databricks data platform. Also participating in ...
ZDNet

Databricks makes Hadoop and Apache Spark easy to use

Apache Spark is a project designed to accelerate Hadoop and other big data applications through the use of an in-memory, clustered data engine. The Apache Foundation describes the Spark project this ...
The Next Web

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

Apache Spark creator and Databricks CTO Matei Zaharia wins the 2026 ACM Prize in Computing and argues that AGI has already ...
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Databricks updates Spark with support for R and Python 3

Databricks has announced a major new update to the popular data analytics cluster framework Apache Spark, adding support for the R statistical programming language in an effort to make life easier for ...