The Best Data Warehouse Is a Lakehouse
Eliminate legacy warehouse costs and lower TCO with a serverless intelligent data warehouse
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AI-powered performance and simplicity
Eliminate the cost and complexity of legacy data warehouses with Databricks SQL — a serverless data warehouse built on lakehouse architecture that natively integrates AI.
Intelligent experiences
Let everyone in your organization self-serve data-driven answers using natural language queries, thanks to AI-powered experiences that understand the unique semantics of your data and your business. Data architects can also write SQL in the SQL editor, which uses AI to generate and fix SQL code.
Predictive optimizations
Deliver high performance, efficiency and resiliency automatically, which can eliminate the overhead of having to manually tune your data warehouse. Databricks SQL also reduces operating costs through time savings and through more efficient provisioning.
World-class price/performance
Improve TCO for your BI and ETL workloads. Save on compute and storage costs with a lakehouse architecture powered by the Photon query engine. These capabilities help you easily predict growth requirements and maintain sustainable budget growth.
AI-powered lakehouse
Less tuning your data warehouses, more answers from your data. All with market-leading price/performance.Democratize analytics and insights across your organization. Accurately answer your data questions, because AI/BI understands your data and continuously improves.
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An open, unified approach to your data, BI and AI workloads
Publish datasets directly to BI providers without managing ODBC/JDBC connections
- Integration with popular BI tools: Power BI, Tableau, Looker, Sigma, Qlik, ThoughtSpot and more
- High concurrency performance that consistently scales
- Low latency, including features like Materialized Views to manage incremental data refreshes
Use your AI models and applications directly within your data warehouse with built-in functions
- Combined business data and semantics to deliver accurate results — without prompt engineering
- Enhanced governance and privacy to automatically detect, classify and prevent misuse of sensitive data
- Built-in AI functions for turnkey analytics
- Connection to custom or external models
- Build RAG in a single SQL statement, powered by Mosaic AI Vector Search
Extract, transform and load data
- Built-in pipelines that are infrastructure-free
- Built-in orchestration with Databricks Workflows
- Intelligent optimizations to make ETL more efficient and cost-effective
- Incremental ingestion, transformation and delivery of fresh data with streaming tables and materialized views
- Integrations with popular ETL tools: dbt, Fivetran and more
Discover, query and govern all your data — no matter where it lives
- Faster query performance across multiple platforms with query caching or optimization
- Safeguard data across data sources by enforcing row and column level security, as well as attribute-based access controls through Unity Catalog
- Platforms include MySQL, PostgreSQL, Amazon Redshift, Snowflake, Azure SQL Database, Azure Synapse, Google BigQuery and more
Real-time insights made simple with streaming data
- Real-time insights are finally possible thanks to world-class streaming data pipelines
- More accurate predictions
- Faster decision-making
AI-optimized performance
- 9x better ETL price/performance
- The Photon query engine for extremely fast query performance at low cost
- Process large numbers of queries quickly and cost-effectively with intelligent workload management
- Automatically rewrite data files to improve data layout
- Maintain both high performance and high BI query concurrency
- 4x improvement on throughput using ai_query()
Usage-based pricing keeps
spending in check
Only pay for the products you use at per-second granularity.Discover more
Learn more about the integrated features of Databricks SQL.
Unity Catalog
Unified governance and security to centrally manage assets and access with integrated Unity Catalog.
AI/BI
Dashboards provide a low-code experience for analysts. Genie helps business users ask questions of their data and self-serve their own analytics.
Delta Sharing
The open source approach of Delta Sharing lets you share live data across platforms, clouds and regions without sacrificing strong security and governance.
Databricks Workflows
Define, manage and monitor multitask workflows with Databricks Workflows, a managed orchestration service that’s fully integrated into Databricks SQL.
Photon
Photon is the next-generation engine built into Databricks SQL that provides extremely fast query performance at low cost.
The Databricks Data Intelligence Platform
Explore the full range of tools available on the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform to seamlessly integrate data and AI across your organization.
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