Databricks research shows multi-step agents consistently outperform single-turn RAG when answers span databases and documents

Data teams building AI agents keep running into the same failure mode. Questions that require joining structured data with ...

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 ...
ZDNet

Databricks' TPC-DS benchmarks fuel analytics platform wars

As data sources and volumes grow, and as a data-driven orientation is increasingly deemed to be a competitive necessity, the war between platform vendors to provide the primary repository for our data ...
CRN

Databricks Looks To Disrupt Legacy Database Space With New ‘Lakebase’ Offering

Transactional database technology “hasn’t actually changed that much in the last 40 years” and is inadequate for today’s operational AI applications and agents, Databricks co-founder and CEO Ali ...
Forbes

Databricks: A Much-Anticipated IPO, But Will The Honeymoon Last?

Databricks recently reached a valuation exceeding $100 billion following its latest funding round, joining the elite group of most-valuable private companies like SpaceX, ByteDance and OpenAI.
CNBC

SAP and Databricks partner to make AI work across business applications

The 2026 CNBC Disruptor 50 list will be revealed Tuesday, May 19th Software vendors SAP and Databricks are partnering to help companies analyze their most critical data. "The way I think about it, the ...