Databricks and the Linux Foundation developed Delta Sharing to provide the first open source approach to data sharing across data, analytics and AI. Customers can share live data across platforms, clouds and regions with strong security and governance.
Key benefits
Open cross-platform sharing
Avoid vendor lock-in, and easily share existing data in Delta Lake and Apache Parquet formats to any data platform.
Share live data with no replication
Share across data platforms, clouds or regions without copying, and share using Cloudflare R2 to lower costs with zero egress fees.
Centralized governance
Centrally manage, govern, audit and track usage of the shared data on one platform.
Marketplace for data products
Build and package data products — including datasets, AI models and notebooks — once and distribute them anywhere through an open marketplace.
Privacy-safe data clean rooms
Easily collaborate with your customers and partners on any cloud via a secure hosted environment while safeguarding data privacy.
How it works
Native integration with the Databricks Platform
Delta Sharing has native integration with Unity Catalog, which allows you to centrally manage and audit shared data across organizations. This lets you confidently share data assets with suppliers and partners for better coordination of your business while meeting security and compliance needs.
Easily manage data and AI assets
Empower any AI or BI workload by collaborating on all types of data assets, including structured datasets, or unstructured datasets with volume sharing, AI models, notebooks and code. Sign up now to get early access to Cross-Platform View Sharing and also early access to Materialized Views and Streaming Tables Sharing.
Discover and access data products through an open marketplace
Databricks Marketplace allows you to easily discover, evaluate and gain access to data products including datasets, AI models, dashboards and notebooks from anywhere, without the need to be on the Databricks Platform.
Privacy-safe data clean rooms
Collaborate with your customers and partners on any cloud in a privacy-safe environment with Databricks Clean Rooms. Securely share data without data replication. Meet collaborators on their preferred cloud and provide them with the flexibility to run complex computations and workloads in any language — SQL and Python, as well as R, Scala and Java (coming soon). Guide collaborators through common use cases using predefined templates, notebooks and dashboards, accelerating time to insights.
Use cases
Build Data Mesh with Delta Sharing to securely share data with business units and subsidiaries across clouds or regions without copying or replicating the data.
Customers
“Atlassian Analytics recently launched Data Shares, leveraging Delta Sharing from Databricks, to boost flexibility and accelerate customers’ time to insight. … Delta Sharing’s open ecosystem of connectors, including Tableau, Power BI and Spark, enables customers to easily power their environments with data directly from the Atlassian Data Lake.”
“With Databricks and Delta Sharing, we have a comprehensive end-to-end ecosystem that enables us to gain deep insights in the oncology realm.”
“Historically, each of our businesses have grown on their own tech stack, and we pursue a multicloud strategy. To connect them without having to move to a single cloud environment and locking ourselves into one vendor, we use Delta Sharing.”
“We recognize that openness of data will play a key role in achieving Shell’s carbon net-zero ambitions. Delta Sharing provides Shell with a standard, controlled and secure protocol for sharing vast amounts of data easily with our partners to work toward these goals without requiring our partners to be on the same data-sharing platform.”
“Delta Sharing helped us streamline our data delivery process for large datasets. This enables our clients to bring their own compute environment to read fresh curated data with little to no integration work, and enables us to continue expanding our catalog of unique, high-quality data products.”
“We used Delta Sharing, and after we gave them a workspace ID, we had tables of data showing up in our Databricks workspace in under 10 minutes.”
“As a data company, giving our customers access to our datasets is critical. The Databricks Data Intelligence Platform with Delta Sharing really streamlines that process, allowing us to securely reach a much broader user base regardless of cloud or platform.”
“Leveraging the powerful capabilities of Delta Sharing from Databricks enables Pumpjack Dataworks to have a faster onboarding experience, removing the need for exporting, importing and remodeling of data, which brings immediate value to our clients. Faster results yield greater commercial opportunity for our clients and their partners.”
“With Delta Sharing, our clients can access curated datasets nearly instantly and integrate them with analytics tools of their choice. The dialogue with our clients shifts from a low-value, technical back-and-forth on ingestion to a high-value analytical discussion where we drive successful client experiences. As our client relationships evolve, we can seamlessly deliver new datasets and refresh existing ones through Delta Sharing to keep clients apprised of key trends in their industries.”
An open ecosystem
Access the latest published version directly from the provider in easy-to-use SQL, Python or BI tools.
Resources
Keynotes and Webinars
Blogs
Guides and eBooks
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