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 ...

As data sources and volumes grow, and as a data-driven orientation is increasingly deemed to be a competitive necessity, the war between platform vendors to provide the primary repository for our data ...

The hyperscalers, cloud builders, HPC centers control the design and manufacturing of own AI infrastructure. They have big bucks, and they can afford to get exactly what they want. For the rest of the ...

Transactional database technology “hasn’t actually changed that much in the last 40 years” and is inadequate for today’s operational AI applications and agents, Databricks co-founder and CEO Ali ...