Databricks is bringing its cloud service for storing and processing data to Microsoft’s Azure public cloud later this year, VentureBeat has learned.
Databricks’ cloud service, which was introduced in 2014 and is based on the Apache Spark open-source big data software, currently only operates out of Amazon Web Services (AWS), the market-leading public cloud. But in 2015 AWS started promoting the Spark support in its EMR cloud service, which was originally conceived as a managed version of the Hadoop open-source big data software. Spark is considered a more performant alternative to Hadoop.
