Databricks

EN: Found on heise.de. After all coding assistants are also coming for Databricks: Databricks Blog anouncement: Introducing Genie Code Press release: Databricks Launches Genie Code: Bringing Agentic Engineering to Data Work Overview intro video Get to know video with pipelines: Get to know

Found on theregister.com In the past few weeks in May and June 2025 Snowflake and Databricks with their acquisions of Neon and Crunchy Data followed Microsoft with their acquisition of Citus Data in 2019. Immediately after that on their Data+AI Summit Databricks launched the Lakebase transactional database service which was developed by Neom and is based on the PostgreSQL open source DBMS technology and stores all of the data on cloud blob storage:

Found on thegerister.com. DuckDB proposed DuckLake as a standard for metadata and catalogs, claims it simplifies lakehouses by using a standard SQL database for all metadata, instead of complex file-based systems, while still storing data in open formats like Parquet. It will be seen, if this makes them more reliable, faster, and easier to manage. The corresponding blog post is worth reading, because it gives a systematic view on the high level data architectures of DuckLake, Databricks, IceBerg, BigQuery and Snowflake.

Gerhard Brueckl from Paiqo, one of the contributors to the open source Delta Lake project did again a Deep Dive into the Delta Lake at the end of 2024.

Found on the register.com It turned out that "Databricks snaped up MosaicML" not just "to build private, custom machine models", but to provide a whole in plattform marketplace of all sorts of open source and commercial models and to build a plattform for integration of all sorts of machine models.

Found on theregister.com What is the background on Databricks with its Delta Tables purchasing Tabular with its Iceberg?