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Data Analytics Overview

Unified lakehouse platform combining data engineering, analytics, data science and AI on a single architecture.

Data & AnalyticsTechnologyDatabricks
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Built by the original creators of Apache Spark, Databricks combines data warehousing and data lake capabilities into a single lakehouse platform, and has expanded into generative AI tooling for building and governing enterprise AI applications.

Capabilities

Unified batch and streaming data processingCollaborative notebooksMLOps and model servingData governance (Unity Catalog)

Use Case Areas

Data engineering pipelinesMachine learning model developmentGenerative AI application development

Key Features

Data Analytics

Ecosystem

Market Snapshot

Adoption: Growing

Growth trend: Trending

AI INSIGHTS

What the AI angle looks like.

Learn about Data Analytics, including its capabilities, practical applications, related technologies, industry use cases and professional communities.

Data Analytics
COMMUNITIES

LinkedIn groups built around Databricks Lakehouse Platform.

RESEARCH

Related research.

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