Ignite 2019: Microsoft has revved its Azure SQL Data Warehouse, re-branding it Synapse Analytics, and integrating Apache Spark, Azure Data Lake Storage and Azure Data Factory, with a unified Web ...

Databricks, a provider of big data analytics and AI solutions, has raised $1.6 billion at a $38 billion post-money valuation.

In an era where financial crimes grow increasingly sophisticated and regulatory scrutiny intensifies, financial institutions ...

For streaming and event processing workloads, alternate big data analytics solutions on Azure like HDInsight or Azure Databricks should be used.

Instead of storing data in the proprietary Teradata file system–which is fast and capable but also expensive–VantageCloud Lake stores data in Amazon S3, using one of a number of open file formats, ...

In the ongoing debate about where companies ought to store data they want to analyze – in a data warehouses or in data lake — Databricks today unveiled a third way. With SQL Analytics, Databricks is ...

Databricks has made a name for itself as one of the most popular commercial services around the Apache Spark data analytics platform (which, not coincidentally, was started by the founders of ...

Azure Data Explorer (ADX), meanwhile, is a fast, fully managed data analytics service for real-time analysis on large volumes of streaming data.