August 21, 2016

More about Databricks and Spark

Databricks CEO Ali Ghodsi checked in because he disagreed with part of my recent post about Databricks. Ali’s take on Databricks’ position in the Spark world includes:

Ali also walked me through customer use cases and adoption in wonderful detail. In general:

The story on those sectors, per Ali, is: 

At an unspecified place in the timeline is national security, for a use case very similar to anti-fraud — identifying communities of bad people. Graph analytics plays a big role here.

And finally, of course we discussed some technical stuff, in philosophy, futures and usage as the case may be. In particular, Ali stressed that Spark 2.0 is the first that “breaks”/changes the APIs; hence the release number. It is now the case that:

Other tidbits included:

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  4. amar on October 16th, 2017 5:52 am

    many uses databricks in machine learning and rest of the use cases are also using it which makes it a good DBMS.

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