What is Azure Databricks?
Azure Databricks is a unified, open analytics platform for building, deploying, sharing, and maintaining enterprise-grade data, analytics, and AI solutions at scale. The Databricks Data Intelligence Platform integrates with cloud storage and security in your cloud account, and manages and deploys cloud infrastructure on your behalf.
What is Azure Databricks used for?
Azure Databricks provides tools that help you connect your sources of data to one platform to process, store, share, analyze, model, and monetize datasets with solutions from BI to generative AI.
The Azure Databricks workspace provides a unified interface and tools for most data tasks, including:
- Data processing scheduling and management, in particular ETL
- Generating dashboards and visualizations
- Managing security, governance, high availability, and disaster recovery
- Data discovery, annotation, and exploration
- Machine learning (ML) modeling, tracking, and model serving
- Generative AI solutions
