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LAKEFLOW CONNECT

Efficient data ingestion into your lakehouse

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Lakeflow Connect
Benefits

Unlock value from your data in just a few easy steps

Built-in data connectors are available for popular enterprise applications, file sources and databases.

Flexible and easy

Fully managed connectors provide a simple UI and API for easy setup and democratize data access. Automated features also help simplify pipeline maintenance with minimal overhead.

Built-in connectors

Data ingestion is fully integrated with the Data Intelligence Platform. Create ingestion pipelines with governance from Unity Catalog, observability from Lakehouse Monitoring, and seamless orchestration with workflows for analytics, machine learning and BI.

Efficient ingestion

Increase efficiency and accelerate time to value. Optimized incremental reads and writes and data transformation help improve the performance and reliability of your pipelines, reduce bottlenecks, and reduce impact to the source data for scalability.

Features

Robust ingestion capabilities for popular data sources

Bringing all your data into the Data Intelligence Platform is the first step
to extracting value and helping solve your organization’s most challenging data problems.

No-code user interface (UI) or a simple API empowers data professionals to self-serve, saving hours of programming.

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Simple UI and API

Only bring in new data or table updates, making data ingestion fast, scalable and operationally efficient.

More about incremental reads and writes
Incremental Reads and Writes

Ingest data within a 100% serverless environment that provides rapid startup and automatic infrastructure scaling.

More about fully managed connectors
Fully Managed

Deep integration with Databricks Unity Catalog provides robust capabilities including lineage and data quality.

More about unified governance with Unity Catalog
Unified Governance

Data ingestion with Databricks

Salesforce Connector

Data connector that supports Salesforce Sales Cloud.

Ingest data from Salesforce

Microsoft SQL Server Connector

Data connector that supports Azure SQL Database and Amazon RDS for SQL Server.

Ingest data from SQL Server

Workday Connector

Data connector that ingests Workday Reports to load directly into Databricks.

Ingest data from Workday

Auto Loader

Incrementally ingest and efficiently process new data files as they arrive in supported cloud storage sources (S3, ADLS, GCS).

Ingest data with Auto Loader

Native SQL Support

SQL users can use the COPY INTO command to load data idempotently and incrementally from a file location into Databricks SQL, Databricks Notebooks and Databricks Workflows.

Ingest data using COPY INTO

Streaming Data Sources

Ingest records from supported sources like Apache Kafka with an always-on infrastructure and near real-time data processing.

Ingest data from streaming sources

Manual File Upload

Upload local files directly into Databricks to create a Delta table or store data in volumes.

Upload files to Databricks
A unified, intelligent solution for data engineering

Lakeflow: a unified, intelligent solution for data engineering

Built on the Data Intelligence Platform, Lakeflow will ingest data from any source with Lakeflow Connect, transform data with Lakeflow DLT and orchestrate with Lakeflow Jobs. Lakeflow Connect is available now.

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use cases

Solving customer problems across a range of industries

PRICING

Usage-based pricing keeps spending in check

Only pay for the products you use at per-second granularity.
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Explore other integrated, intelligent offerings on the Data Intelligence Platform.

Databricks Workflows

Easily define, manage and monitor multitask workflows for ETL, analytics and machine learning pipelines. Be more productive with support for a wide range of task types.

DLT

Simplify batch and streaming ETL with automated data quality, change data capture (CDC), data ingestion, transformation and unified governance.

Unity Catalog

Seamlessly govern all your data assets with the industry’s only unified and open governance solution for data and AI, built into the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform.

Delta Lake

Unify the data in your lakehouse, across all formats and types, for all your analytics and AI workloads.

Getting Started

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