Spark creator bags computing gong for making big data a little bit smaller

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

Senzing Launches Agentic Entity Resolution for Apache Spark

New Spark-native offering makes Senzing the first entity resolution vendor to offer batch, transactional, and hybrid ...

EDB Postgres(R) AI Delivers Superior Predictability vs. Cloud Data Warehouses in High-Concurrency Benchmark, Unveils Q1 Platform Updates to Power the Agentic AI Era

Independent benchmark by McKnight Consulting Group reveals EDB Postgres AI for WarehousePG delivers up to 58% cost savings and more consistent concurrent performance, while new platform features ...
The Next Web

Databricks co-founder Matei Zaharia wins ACM Prize and declares AGI is already here

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

Databricks co-founder wins prestigious ACM award, says ‘AGI is here already’

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

Databricks, Accenture Launch Joint Business Venture Focused On Spurring AI Development

The new Accenture Databricks Business Group, tasked with expanding customer use of the Databricks platform for a broad range of AI tasks, is the latest expansion of the strategic alliance between the ...

Snowflake: Cheap Enough To Watch, Not Yet Cheap Enough To Buy

Snowflake faces structural issues, hyperscaler rent, geopolitical data localization, and self-inflicted pricing pressure from ...
NPR

The Spark

When people come together and talk about really interesting topics, great questions spark better understanding and opportunities for new ideas to form. On The Spark from WITF, host Asia Tabb starts ...