A decade ago, Ion Stoica and his colleagues at UC Berkeley's school of computing identified the roadblock to performing advanced analytics. The challenge at the time was what we then called Big Data.

The past few months have highlighted that the battle between Snowflake Inc. and Databricks Inc. is as hot as ever. The two companies have different philosophies. But there’s no question that ...

The recent Databricks Data+AI Summit attracted a large audience and, like Snowflake Summit, featured a strong focus on large language models, unification and bringing AI to the data. While customers ...