VANCOUVER, B.C., Oct. 15 — Today Simba Technologies Inc., the worldwide leader in Big Data connectivity, and Databricks, the company founded by the creators of Apache Spark — the powerful open-source ...

Data and AI platform Databricks has announced its agreement to acquire data management company Tabular. This deal is particularly significant because of both what it means, and the people involved.

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What I'd like to cover here goes beyond those AI headlines, however, and involves a special nugget just for folks doing data engineering, analytics and machine learning work with Apache Spark.

Apache Spark is a project designed to accelerate Hadoop and other big data applications through the use of an in-memory, clustered data engine. The Apache Foundation describes the Spark project this ...