VentureBeat

Databricks open-sources Unity Catalog, challenging Snowflake on interoperability for data workloads

Today, Databricks kicked off its annual Data and AI summit with a long-awaited move: the open sourcing of its three-year-old Unity Catalog platform that provides customers a unified solution for their ...
TechCrunch

Databricks to buy open source database startup Neon for $1B

Data analytics platform Databricks said on Wednesday that it has agreed to acquire Neon, a startup building an open source alternative to AWS Aurora Postgres, for about $1 billion. Databricks said ...
VentureBeat

Databricks open-sources declarative ETL framework powering 90% faster pipeline builds

Today, at its annual Data + AI Summit, Databricks announced that it is open-sourcing its core declarative ETL framework as Apache Spark Declarative Pipelines, making it available to the entire Apache ...
PR Newswire

Databricks Donates Declarative Pipelines to Apache Spark™ Open Source Project

SAN FRANCISCO, June 11, 2025 /PRNewswire/ --Data + AI Summit -- Databricks, the Data and AI company, today announced it is open-sourcing the company's core declarative ETL framework as Apache Spark™ ...
InfoWorld

Databricks to acquire open-source database startup Neon to build the next wave of AI agents

Agentic AI requires a whole new type of architecture; traditional workflows create serious gridlock, dragging down speed and performance. Databricks is signaling its intent to get ahead in this next ...