What's maybe more exciting, though, is something Databricks calls Project Lightspeed, which the company describes as the next generation of the Spark streaming engine.

The Apache Spark community has improved support for Python to such a great degree over the past few years that Python is now a “first-class” language, and no longer a “clunky” add-on as it once was, ...

Taking on Google, Databricks plans to offer its own cloud service for analyzing live data streams, one based on the Apache Spark software.

Still, Databricks’ announcements today failed to address its in-memory data processing capabilities, which Mueller said was Spark’s biggest strength but also its biggest weakness.

Databricks Cloud will provide Spark-based streaming analysis as a service Taking on Google, Databricks plans to offer its own cloud service for analyzing live data streams, one based on the Apache ...