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Reynold Xin
@rxin
Cofounder @Databricks
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    Reynold Xin
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    May 20
    Oracle has spent the last two weeks writing articles comparing Oracle (and PDB) to Lakebase, and it highlights a massive philosophical divide in how we view databases in the agentic era. They are trying to retrofit heavy, traditional architectures for AI. We believe Lakebase are
    Neon — Postgres backends for apps and agents
    From neon.com
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    Reynold Xin
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    Jun 23, 2020
    Databricks has 4 immigrant founders. We moved to the US for the opportunity to work with the best minds in the world. Our projects power all sectors of the US economy. We employ 1400 people & growing, most in the US. None of these would've happened if we were to start in 2020.
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    Reynold Xin
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    Nov 21, 2023
    Today, more than 80% of the table metadata updates on Databricks are AI-assisted. It took 2 engineers, 1 month, and less than $1000 in compute cost to develop the custom LLM for this task.
    Bespoke LLM for AI-Generated Documentation | Databricks Blog
    From databricks.com
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    Reynold Xin
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    Nov 8, 2021
    The DeWitt clause is anti-competitive and we should foster competition and progress. At @databricks, we are removing the DeWitt Clause from our service terms to encourage open benchmarks and research, and calling upon the rest of the industry to follow.
    Eliminating the DeWitt Clause for Database Benchmarking
    From databricks.com
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    Reynold Xin
    @rxin
    Apr 1, 2016
    The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Deep Learning on Spark databricks.com/blog/2016/04/0… This is super exciting - next major chapter in big data.
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    Reynold Xin
    @rxin
    Jun 15, 2022
    Apache Spark has won the SIGMOD Systems Award, and Photon won the Best Industry Paper Award! This is a great testament to the adoption and impact of these two systems. If you are at SIGMOD this wk, please come by and say hi.
    Apache Spark and Photon Receive SIGMOD Awards
    From databricks.com
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    Reynold Xin
    @rxin
    Oct 16, 2019
    Delta Lake is now part of the Linux Foundation! EBs of data/month, in production 1000s of organizations. Can't wait to see how the community will shape its future and establish it as a standard for data lakes. databricks.com/blog/2019/10/1…
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    Reynold Xin
    @rxin
    Nov 15, 2021
    "We stand by our blog post and the results: Databricks SQL provides superior performance and price performance over Snowflake, even on data warehousing workloads (TPC-DS)."
    Snowflake Claims Similar Price/Performance to Databricks, But Not So fast!
    From databricks.com
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    Reynold Xin
    @rxin
    Jun 23, 2023
    English is the new programming language. Generative AI is the new compiler. Python is the new byte code.
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    Reynold Xin
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    Nov 1, 2015
    Want to write your Spark job in C#? Microsoft just published Spark .NET CLR language binding spark-packages.org/package/skaart…
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    Reynold Xin
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    Jun 14, 2024
    The best data warehouse is a lakehouse! Databricks SQL (our data warehousing product on top of the Lakehouse) became GA 2.5 yrs ago, and just crossed $400m ARR. One of the fastest growing enterprise software product ever.
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    Tomasz Tunguz
    Theory Ventures
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    Jun 13, 2024
    Databricks revealed some sensational growth this week, as they did last year. Exiting this quarter to $2.4 billion annual run rate, the company’s revenue growth is accelerated year-over-year by 10 percentage points. Net dollar retention is a major driver of growth at 140%, which
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    Reynold Xin
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    Nov 15, 2016
    Apache Spark 2.0.2 is released. Update if you are on any 2.0.x version. spark.apache.org/downloads.html
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    Reynold Xin
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    Feb 24, 2015
    Spark "hall of fame": 8000+ nodes in a single cluster, 1PB+/day ingest, mapping the brain at scale, shuffling 1PB slideshare.net/databricks/lar…
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    Reynold Xin
    @rxin
    Jan 26, 2022
    Databricks SQL Python connector is here! Connect to Databricks SQL in your applications just got much easier. sprou.tt/1K9JPGe3VcH