This is a performance testing framework for Spark SQL in Apache Spark 2.2+. The framework contains twelve benchmarks that can be executed in local mode. They are organized into three classes and ...

On the morning Databricks co-founder and CTO Matei Zaharia takes the keynote stage at the Data + AI Summit in San Francisco, his open-source project is already two days old. Zaharia published Omnigent ...

Exercise 1: Set up the Solaris Energy Data Platform Before you can ingest any data, you need to establish the Unity Catalog structure: a catalog to represent the platform, schemas to organise data by ...

Twenty-five years ago, Microsoft’s CEO, Steve Ballmer, called “Linux a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches.” At Build 2026 in June, the same company ...

No sooner did Anthropic file for its initial public offering of stock this week than it then put out a missive suggesting that AI model makers need to slow down to let us catch our breath — or else AI ...

Microsoft has announced the general availability of Copilot Cowork, its AI-powered agentic workspace designed to handle complex and long-running tasks across multiple tools and data sources. The ...

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