AI and ML The price is wrong: AI cost calculation has to consider task completion rates, not just token costs Cheap can be expensive
DATABASES Databricks unifies OLTP and OLAP, depending on what counts as a copy LTAP architecture does some clever engineering beneath a debatable marketing pitch
Legal Databricks can't seem to shake authors' copyright claim that could result in 'extraordinary' damages Authors say it acquired an LLM that was trained on their copyrighted data, and judge keeps asking for more info
Databases DuckDB uses RDBMS to attack classic 'small changes' problem in lakehouses Batching teensy changes in chunks creates massive performance boost, DuckDB Labs team claims
Software Spark creator bags computing gong for making big data a little bit smaller ACM salutes Databricks co-founder Matei Zaharia with $250K prize
Databases No membrane in sight as Osmos diffuses into Microsoft Fabric AI data engineering startup acquisition brings ETL and Spark automation in-house
Databases Industry reacts to DuckDB's radical rethink of Lakehouse architecture Excitement over DuckLake, but momentum is with Iceberg as players at AWS, Snowflake weigh in
Databases Delta Lake and Iceberg communities collide – in a good way Table format loved by Apple and Netflix gets boost after Databricks merger
Databases Single-platform approach may fall short for AI data management Data platform vendors can't meet all your needs, warns Gartner
Databases The force is strong in Iceberg: Are the table format wars entering the final chapter? Former Apple engineer and Apache PMC member Russell Spitzer describes efforts to unite around a single format
Databases Databricks' $1B Tabular buy raises questions around table format wars Keeping things neutral will be harder, say critics, as tiny startup acquired
AI + ML Databricks claims its open source foundational LLM outsmarts GPT-3.5 In the AI gold rush, analytics outfit wants to provide the shovels
Databases Microsoft, Databricks double act tries to sew up the data platform market But the one-stop shop vision fails to take it far beyond the competition
Storage Databricks' lakehouse becomes foundation under fresh layer of AI dreams Mega startup serves slice of GenAI with data engineering main as it tries to upstage Microsoft’s Fabric showpiece
Databases Microsoft touts mirroring over moving in data warehouse gambit Fabric update cuts against the grain, and may have more to do with Databricks partnerships
AI + ML Databricks cements Arcion Labs deal, will absorb its data access tools A $100M match made in analytics heaven, parties claim
Databases Tabular's Iceberg vision goes from Netflix and chill to database thrill Promise of neutral data layer between vendors' vested interests attracts $26M
Databases Databricks shakes VC money tree and $500M falls out Who needs an IPO when you have Series I?
Databases Databricks puts cards on the table format as Snowflake looks for more players Enterprises want a single data platform for data lakes and warehouse, but tech's not there yet, say analysts
AI + ML Databricks snaps up MosaicML to build private, custom machine models Acquisition means for both parties get a shot at leading the roll-your-own AI market
Spotlight on Databases Teradata chases hyperscaler, SI partnerships in cloud push We're not just your grandmother's data warehouse, CEO tells El Reg
Databases Cassandra 4.1 promises dev guardrails and pluggable storage Apache project focused on stability following previous major upgrade
Storage Databricks promises cheap cloud data warehousing at an eighth of the cost of rivals Inertia of embedded BI and analytics a limiting factor, however
SaaS Informatica bids to become Switzerland of data with SaaSy governance and catalogue tool Stakes claim for neutral territory after Databricks and cloud vendors make play to manage your data
Storage Snowflake agrees it's good to share... on its platform, while Databricks opts for a more vendor-neutral approach Enterprise newcomer has its work cut out in the data marketplace field
Storage Leaving Spark behind, Databricks enters new territory as it eyes 2021 IPO Will its vision for unified analytics fly?
Storage Funding frenzy from AWS, Microsoft, Google, Salesforce pumps ex-Hadoop wrangler Databricks' value to $28bn Oof, that's gotta hurt for Cloudera, which is sitting at a paltry $4.6bn
Databases Databricks: Ugh, just look at that messy data lake environment. Squints. You know... we could sort that out with a sweet shot of SQL Data-wrangler previews another lakehouse concept tool
On-Prem Databricks buys analytics biz, donates MLflow to Linux Foundation, opens up Delta Engine to boffins Time to trawl through some data lakes
On-Prem Hey, Sparky: Confused by data science governance and security in the cloud? Databricks promises to ease machine learning pipelines You know the one, that pothole ridden journey from on-prem to the fluffy white stuff
On-Prem Get in the lake, Sparky: Databricks touts new ingestion file sources Data warehousers likely hoping it's not, er, Apache on their efforts
AI + ML Databricks wants one tool to rule all AI systems – coincidentally, its own MLflow tool Turns out people are not that great at tracking thousands of variables
Storage Databricks launches open-source project to drain all your data swamps into info lakes From the creators of Apache Spark, comes a new tale of friendship and imagination
SaaS Investors dump $250m on analytics biz like a ton of Databricks Series E funding round values company at $2.75bn
AI + ML Databricks pushes machine learning on easy mode: Rock star data scientist, meet sweaty engineer Co-founders chat to El Reg about liability, data silos and raw data pain
SaaS Bright Sparks: Databricks emits system to sort out ‘data mess’ Data-nom from stream, lake and warehouse, they chirp
Storage Not even Easter can stop the inexorable march of storage Put down the chocolate, catch up on the hottest industry news
SaaS Cloudera, MapR, IBM, and Intel bet on Spark as the new heart of Hadoop Screeching sound heard amid Spark stampede as Cloudera changes opinion on Hive
