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LAKEHOUSE

The best data warehouse is a lakehouse

Unify your data and analytics on an open warehouse foundation that lowers costs at scale.
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Benefits

AI-powered performance and simplicity

Eliminate the cost and complexity of legacy data warehouses with an open, serverless lakehouse that unifies your data and 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, so you can eliminate the overhead of manually tuning your data warehouse. Reduce operating costs with Lakehouse through time savings and 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.

Features

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.

AI/BI

Get the best price/performance with instant and elastic compute, lower cost and completely managed infrastructure.

Serverless

Unify your analytics data with open table formats so your data stays portable, with no vendor lock-in.

Lakehouse storage

Easily connect BI tools (Power BI, Tableau and more) to Lakehouse for fast performance on fresh data.

Simple BI tool integration

Unified governance and security to centrally manage your assets and access with integrated Unity Catalog.

Unified governance

Discover, query and govern all your data in one place. Use federation to expose, query and govern siloed data systems as an extension of your lakehouse.

Lakehouse Federation

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Security

Comprehensive security to protect your data and workloads, such as encryption, network controls, data governance and auditing.

More about our security controls and compliance certifications

Storage

A lakehouse is a format-agnostic architecture combining the price/performance and scale of data lakes with the data management and ACID transactions of data warehouses.

Learn more about the lakehouse architecture

AI-Driven Performance

AI-driven performance to intelligently route queries, plan and execute quickly with intelligent data retrieval and writes, and accelerate data access.

Read this performance blog

Data Integration and Ingestion

With native ingestion capabilities and a broad partner ecosystem, you can ingest from nearly any source with simple, scalable and cost-effective integrations.

More about data engineering

Data Sharing

The Databricks Platform makes it easier to get the data and insights you need by helping you share data, AI and solutions in a unified way.

 

More about Delta Sharing

Data Quality Monitoring

Simple, scalable monitoring that detects anomalies, tracks freshness and delivers consistent quality signals across data and AI assets. 

Learn more about Data Quality Monitoring

SQL Authoring

Build SQL queries with Genie Code, connect to participating apps, tools, clients, SDKs and APIs, and use built-in functions for AI and geospatial.

Read the documentation
use cases

An open, unified approach to your data, BI and AI workloads

Self-service BI

Empower anyone to extract insights with SQL queries

Empower data analysts and business users to answer questions independently while freeing up data professionals for more complex tasks

  • AI-powered dashboards
  • Conversational interfaces to chat with your data
  • An evolving system that gets smarter every time you use it
Databricks Lakehouse queries 5x faster.

AI-optimized performance

Lakehouse uses AI systems throughout the Databricks Platform that analyze your workloads and automatically improve efficiency and performance. Customer queries are already 5x faster than three years ago.

  • 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()
Pricing

Usage-based pricing keeps
spending in check

Only pay for the products you use at per-second granularity.
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Learn more about the integrated features of Lakehouse.

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.

Lakehouse//RT

A real-time lakehouse that provides millisecond performance at massive scale, directly on your lake, for operational analytics and BI serving.

 

Lakeflow Jobs

Define, manage and monitor multitask workflows with Lakeflow Jobs, a managed orchestration service that’s fully integrated into Lakehouse. 

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. 

The Databricks Platform

Explore the full range of tools available on the Databricks Platform to seamlessly integrate data and AI across your organization. 

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