Azure Databricks Introduction

Maximize the data value for all analytics and AI use case

Azure Databricks is a fully managed first-party service that enables an open data lakehouse in Azure. With a lakehouse built on top of an open data lake, quickly light up a variety of analytical workloads while allowing for common governance across your entire data estate. Enable key use cases including data science, data engineering, machine learning, AI, and SQL-based analytics.

* Azure first-party service tightly integrated with related Azure services and support.
* Analytics for your most complete and recent data to provide clear actionable insights.
* Data lakehouse foundation built on an open data lake for unified and governed data.
* Reliable data engineering and large-scale data processing for batch and streaming workloads.

Get a unified experience

Azure Databricks is a fully managed Azure first-party service, sold and supported directly by Microsoft. It’s simple to get started with a single click in the Azure portal, and Azure Databricks is natively integrated with related Azure services. This means that there is no integration effort involved, and a full range of analytics and AI use cases can be rapidly enabled.

Unify your workloads to eliminate data silos and responsibly democratize data to allow scientists, data engineers, and data analysts to collaborate on well-governed datasets.

Harness an open and flexible framework

Use an optimized lakehouse architecture on open data lake to enable the processing of all data types and rapidly light up all your analytics and AI workloads in Azure.

Depending on the workload, use a variety of endpoints like Apache Spark on Azure Databricks, Azure Synapse Analytics, Azure Machine Learning, and Power BI.

Get flexibility to choose the languages and tools that work best for you, including Python, Scala, R, Java, and SQL, as well as data science frameworks and libraries including TensorFlow, PyTorch, and SciKit Learn.

Build efficient analytics in Azure

Set up Apache Spark clusters in minutes from within the familiar Azure portal.

Get lightning-fast query performance with Photon, simplicity of management with serverless compute, and reliable pipelines for delivering high-quality data with Delta Live Tables.

Azure Databricks offers predictable pricing with cost optimization options like reserved capacity to lower virtual machine (VM) costs. Basic Azure support directly from Microsoft is included in the price.