Spark Summit 17: Databricks launches Delta as purified data lake

Databricks, the inventor and commercial distributor of the Apache Spark processing platform, has announced a system called Delta, which it believes will appeal to CIOs as a data lake, a data warehouse and a "streaming ingest system". It is said to eliminate the need for extract, transform and load (ETL) processes. Every conference this year contains a dead human genius reincarnated as software system or a robot. Yes, there is a lot of hype, but there is real worth in AI and Machine Learning. Read our counseling on how to avoid adopting "black box" approach.