Databricks' $1B Tabular buy raises questions around table format wars

In September last year it was a company with around 25 employees, all working remotely. Last night, Tabular was bought by analytics and machine learning platform Databricks for a reported $1 billion. The reason Databricks — itself still VC funded — was prepared to splash so much cash on the fledgling vendor is that its …

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Can Somebody Translate From Gibberish

"Data lake" ?

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Re: Can Somebody Translate From Gibberish

I realize I am behind the bullshit cycle.

It's actually a useful concept: https://www.coursera.org/articles/data-lake-vs-data-warehouse?utm_medium=sem&utm_source=gg&utm_campaign=B2C_EMEA__coursera_FTCOF_career-academy_pmax-multiple-audiences-country-multi&campaignid=20858198824&adgroupid=&device=c&keyword=&matchtype=&network=x&devicemodel=&adposition=&creativeid=&hide_mobile_promo&gad_source=1&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIjb-ii-TEhgMVCbRoCR0qyBAxEAAYBCAAEgLQCvD_BwE

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Re: Can Somebody Translate From Gibberish

Start by stuffing data in to a Warehouse. When that fills up and you don't stop shovelling the data in, it spills out to create a Lake

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Linked and dequerystringed

https://www.coursera.org/articles/data-lake-vs-data-warehouse

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Everything about this is FUBAR

VC pump and dump

$1Billion for tiny company

Everything about this smells wrong.