Databricks debuts free community edition of cloud-based platform

Databricks, a company founded by the creators of the Apache Spark cluster computing framework, announced the beta release of Databricks Community Edition at Spark Summit East in New York City today.Databricks Community Edition is a free version of the company's cloud-based big data platform, designed to provide users with access to a micro-cluster and a cluster manager and notebook environment. Databricks says the version is idea for developers, data scientists, data engineers and other IT pros