Databricks acquires Neon - Hacker News
Databricks acquires Neon (databricks.com) 389 points by davidgomes 12 months ago | hide | past | favorite | 226 comments
Why Databricks Is Winning | Hacker News
Feb 14, 2021 · Databricks seems on a convergent evolution towards Snowflake, between the two of them I’d rather be starting at the position Snowflake is versus Databricks. They are both going …
The end of big data | Hacker News
May 27, 2022 · The point is that databricks is absolutely a very innovative company, it's just that it's impossible to compete against the bigger players. The only real major lasting strength of databricks …
Create Mermaid Diagrams in Notebooks (Databricks, Jupyter, VS Code ...
May 3, 2025 · Create Mermaid Diagrams in Notebooks (Databricks, Jupyter, VS Code, Cursor) (pypi.org) 3 points by vbalasu 11 months ago | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment
Snowflake’s response to Databricks’ TPC-DS post | Hacker News
Nov 13, 2021 · Snowflake’s response to Databricks’ TPC-DS post (snowflake.com) 80 points by uvdn7 on Nov 13, 2021 | hide | past | favorite | 102 comments
Price-performance benchmarks for spatial SQL (Databricks Serverless …
Jan 9, 2026 · SpatialBench is an open benchmark suite for spatial SQL. The goal is to compare engines on price-performance, since serverless makes raw “x times faster” claims hard to interpret. I used it …
Pg_lake: Postgres with Iceberg and data lake access | Hacker News
Nov 4, 2025 · Ok so I build my data lake on s3 using all open tech. I’m still paying for S3 for puts and reads and lists. Ok I put it on my own hardware. In my own colo. you’re still paying electricity and …
650GB of Data (Delta Lake on S3). Polars vs. DuckDB vs. Daft vs. Spark ...
Nov 13, 2025 · 650GB of Data (Delta Lake on S3). Polars vs. DuckDB vs. Daft vs. Spark (dataengineeringcentral.substack.com) 263 points by tanelpoder 5 months ago | hide | past | favorite …
Polars Cloud and Distributed Polars now available | Hacker News
Sep 4, 2025 · Polars Cloud and Distributed Polars now available (pola.rs) 183 points by jonbaer 6 months ago | hide | past | favorite | 92 comments
Delta Lake vs. Parquet: A Comparison | Hacker News
Jan 19, 2024 · Converting a Parquet table to a Delta table is an in-place, cheap computation. You can just add the Delta Lake metadata to an existing Parquet table and then take advantage of …
The more I’ve looked at DSPy, the less impressed I am. The design of ...
The more I’ve looked at DSPy, the less impressed I am. The design of the project is very confusing with non-sensical, convoluted abstractions. And for all the discussion surrounding it, I’ve yet to see …