A decade ago, Ion Stoica and his colleagues at UC Berkeley's school of computing identified the roadblock to performing advanced analytics. The challenge at the time was what we then called Big Data.

Confirming recent reports, Databricks Inc. today announced that it’s acquiring Neon Inc. to enhance its cloud data platform, in a deal the Wall Street Journal reported is worth about $1 billion. San ...

$1 Billion Deal: Databricks to Acquire Neon and Boost AI-Driven Databases Your email has been sent Databricks, a leading platform for data and AI solutions, has announced plans to acquire Neon, a ...

The importance of databases to modern enterprise AI operations cannot be overstated. Data helps to train and ground AI, and multiple research reports show that without proper data, AI efforts tend to ...

Databricks Inc. today introduced a new serverless database called Lakebase that can process more than 10,000 queries per second. The service is based on PostgreSQL, a popular open-source relational ...

‘The era of AI-native, agent-driven applications is reshaping what a database must do. Neon proves it: Four out of every five databases on their platform are spun up by code, not humans,’ says ...

Five years ago, Databricks coined the term 'data lakehouse' to describe a new type of data architecture that combines a data lake with a data warehouse. That term and data architecture are now ...

Databricks has introduced a new offering to simplify the management of Apache Spark workloads in the cloud. “Databricks Serverless” is a managed computing platform for Apache Spark that allows teams ...

Databricks CEO Ali Ghodsi and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang announced an expansion of their companies’ partnership at the Databricks Data and AI Summit. I was recently back in San Francisco, attending the ...

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