The platform
Databricks is a unified data and AI platform built on the lakehouse architecture: open-format storage with warehouse-grade governance and performance.
- Delta Lake: ACID tables on open Parquet storage, the default table format for Databricks pipelines.
- Unity Catalog: one governance layer for tables, files, models and service principals across workspaces.
- Spark, SQL and streaming compute: batch and streaming on the same engine, with Databricks SQL for warehouse-style workloads.
- Databricks ML and model serving for the AI workloads that sit on top of the governed data.