Databricks’ Unity Catalog, now open sourced under the Apache 2.0 license, competes with Snowflake’s Polaris Catalog, which will soon be open source. Just days after rival data lakehouse provider ...

Today, Databricks kicked off its annual Data and AI summit with a long-awaited move: the open sourcing of its three-year-old Unity Catalog platform that provides customers a unified solution for their ...

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 ...

SAN FRANCISCO, June 11, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Data + AI Summit --Databricks, the Data and AI company, today announced it is open-sourcing the company's core declarative ETL framework as Apache Spark™ ...

As customers try to “get artificial intelligence right,” the need to rationalize siloed data becomes increasingly important. Data practitioners could put all their data eggs into a single platform ...

Matei Zaharia has won the top honor from the Association for Computing Machinery. Now he's working on AI for research and ...

Apache Spark creator and Databricks CTO Matei Zaharia wins the 2026 ACM Prize in Computing and argues that AGI has already ...

When Zaharia started work on Spark around 2010, analyzing "big data" generally meant using MapReduce, the Java-based ...