What's so 'unified' about universal data analytics? - CW Developer Network

Ground level definitions out of the way, what has Databricks been doing to add to unified utopia? The company has this month announced Apache Spark open-source cluster-computing framework. This means that the company is the vendor to support Apache Spark 2.3 within a compute engine, Databricks Runtime 4.0, which is now generally available. In addition to support for Spark 2.3, Databricks Runtime 4.0 introduces new features including Machine Learning Model Export to simplify production deployments and performance optimizations. "The community continues to expand on Apache Spark's role as a unified analytics engine for big data and AI. This is a major milestone to introduce the continuous processing mode of Structured Streaming with millisecond low-latency, as well as other features across the project," said Matei Zaharia, creator of Apache Spark and chief technologist and co-founder of Databricks.