With Apache Spark Declarative Pipelines, engineers describe what their pipeline should do using SQL or Python, and Apache Spark handles the execution.

Using Databricks Photon SQL engine with spot instances brought the Price/Performance metric for a 100TB TPC-DS decision support benchmark down to $146, which is roughly 12 times better than the ...

AI and data analytics company Databricks today announced the launch of SQL Analytics, a new service that makes it easier for data analysts to run their standard SQL queries directly on data lakes.

With LakeFlow, Databricks users will soon be able to build their data pipelines and ingest data from databases like MySQL, Postgres, SQL Server and Oracle, as well as enterprise applications like ...

Databricks says that this work, which was based on TPC-DS benchmarks but not TPC-audited, shows Databricks SQL to be 2.7x faster (see the figure below from a Databricks blog post on the subject).

Databricks' $1 billion acquisition of Neon highlights how serverless PostgreSQL has become essential for agentic AI development. Skip to main content Events Video Special Issues Jobs ...