Hands-On Machine Learning with Azure
by Thomas K Abraham, Parashar Shah, Jen Stirrup, Lauri Lehman, Anindita Basak, Ryan Murphy
Azure Databricks
Azure Databricks is one of the newest additions to the tools that can be used to build custom AI solutions on Azure. It is based on Apache Spark, but is optimized for use on the Azure platform. The Spark engine can be accessed by various APIs that can be based on Scala, Python, R, SQL, or Java. To leverage the scalability of Spark, users need to leverage Spark libraries when dealing with data objects and their transformations. Azure Databricks leverages these scalable libraries on top of highly elastic and scalable Spark clusters that are managed by the runtime. Databricks comes with enterprise-grade security, compliance, and collaboration features that distinguish it from Apache Spark. The ability to schedule and orchestrate ...
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