In November 2020, Databricks introduced Databricks SQL (previously called SQL Analytics) for running business intelligence and analytics reporting on top of data lakes. Databricks is a cloud-based platform for managing and analyzing large datasets using the Apache Spark open-source big data processing engine. It offers a unified workspace for data scientists, engineers, and business analysts to collaborate, develop, and deploy data-driven applications.

Understanding the Context

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Key Insights

Databricks is a unified data and AI platform that runs both analytical and operational workloads on one open, governed foundation. Azure Databricks machine learning expands the core functionality of the platform with a suite of tools tailored to the needs of data scientists and ML engineers, including MLflow and Databricks Runtime for Machine Learning.