#Databricks
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Liquid Clustering Replaces Partitioning
Databricks' Liquid Clustering is replacing traditional partitioning, offering major performance gains and debunking myths about data layout.
Databricks Lakebase: Database Branching Reimagined
Databricks Lakebase's new database branching feature allows developers isolated, production-like environments, streamlining database evolution.
Databricks Shines at SIGMOD 2026
Databricks' Enzyme engine and Spark Declarative Pipelines are showcased at SIGMOD 2026, simplifying complex data engineering tasks.
Databricks Touts Unity Catalog for Iceberg
Databricks enhances Unity Catalog for Apache Iceberg, offering GA for Managed, v3, and Foreign Iceberg with focus on interoperability, governance, and AI-driven optimization.
Enterprise AI Agents: The Scale-Up Playbook
Enterprise leaders are finding success in scaling AI agents by embedding governance, orchestrating complex workflows, and empowering their workforce.
Databricks Genie Sparks Media Personalization
Databricks Genie uses AI to let media execs ask complex questions of their data in natural language, speeding up personalization and product development.
Databricks Blends BI with Predictive AI
Databricks integrates Genie and TabPFN into a multi-agent system, enabling business users to ask predictive questions directly within conversational BI.
Databricks Genie Tackles Carbon Data Blind Spots
Databricks Genie uses natural language to turn complex emissions data into actionable decarbonization strategies, moving sustainability from compliance to competitive advantage.
Databricks Genie: Partner AI Solutions Emerge
Databricks partners are launching industry-specific conversational AI solutions built on Databricks Genie, democratizing data access and accelerating AI-driven decisions.
Databricks, Health Samurai Unite Health Data
Databricks and Health Samurai partner to create a FHIR-native health data platform, unifying fragmented healthcare data without ETL.
Databricks Unifies Operational Data
Databricks' new Lakebase Change Data Feed simplifies operational data integration into the Lakehouse, enabling direct streaming and unified governance.
Databricks Fortifies Lakehouse Against Cloud Outages
Databricks is engineering its Lakehouse architecture for inherent resilience against cloud failures, using stateless compute and compartmentalization.
Databricks: Always-On Pricing
Databricks introduces Always-On pricing for Lakehouse Postgres, offering a 25% discount on baseline capacity without long-term commitments.
Databricks Tackles LLM Inference Costs
Databricks details its 'model units' abstraction and cost-aware autoscaling for reliable, high-throughput LLM inference, cutting GPU costs by over 80%.
Databricks BI Stack: Faster Queries, Lower Costs
Databricks unveils its BI serving stack, integrating physical data optimization with a governed semantic layer for enhanced performance and reduced costs.
Telcos' AI Paradox: Data Debt Stalls Progress
Telcos face an AI paradox: high adoption intent but stalled production due to fragmented data. A unified semantic layer is the key to overcoming 'data debt'.
Octopus Energy Slashes Costs 50x
Octopus Energy slashed data engineering costs by 50x to meet UK's MHHS regulation, processing 98.8% fewer data rows and improving freshness.
Databricks Speeds Up Open-Source LLMs
Databricks enhances open-source LLM performance with automatic prompt caching, reducing latency and boosting throughput without user configuration.
Databricks Adds OpenTelemetry Tracing
Databricks integrates OpenTelemetry tracing directly into Unity Catalog, offering governed, cost-effective observability for AI agents and simplifying telemetry pipelines.
World Bank Leverages Databricks for Poverty Fight
World Bank Group uses Databricks to unify data, enabling faster insights and accelerating global poverty reduction efforts.
Boards Can't Read Tech Security Reports
Boards struggle with technical cybersecurity reports. Databricks Genie aims to translate security data into financial risk insights for better decision-making.
Databricks Tames AI Agents
Databricks enhances Unity Catalog to govern AI agents, focusing on access control, data lineage, cost intelligence, and interoperability.
Databricks Lakebase Tackles Marketing Costs
Databricks Lakebase Postgres offers a serverless OLTP database that scales to zero, cutting costs and simplifying data delivery for marketing campaigns.
Telecom Capex Smarter with AI
AI tools like Databricks Genie are helping telecom CFOs close the financial intelligence gap in network capex planning by unifying data and enabling natural language queries.
Databricks Genie Boosts Retail Personalization
Databricks Genie enables retail CX leaders to query complex customer data using natural language, accelerating personalization efforts.
Databricks Powers Global Health Volunteer Matching
Databricks for Good and the Virtue Foundation are using AI to map global healthcare resources and connect medical volunteers to critical needs.
Databricks Automates Data Monitoring
Databricks SQL Alerts are now Generally Available, automating data and KPI monitoring to catch issues instantly and reduce manual checks.
Databricks Genie Cracks Supply Chain Blind Spots
Databricks Genie offers a conversational AI layer for supply chains, enabling real-time insights and proactive decision-making by breaking down data silos.
Spark Streams Tackle Fraud in Milliseconds
Databricks' Spark Real-Time Mode and Lakebase offer a unified platform for sub-second fraud detection, eliminating complex infrastructure.
Databricks Unifies Data, Analytics, and AI
Databricks aims to simplify data operations with its unified Lakehouse Platform, integrating data warehousing, analytics, and AI development.
Databricks curbs AI agent dangers
Databricks Unity Catalog introduces granular control and logging for AI agents, preventing unauthorized actions and providing a complete audit trail.
Databricks Tames AI Spend
Databricks unveils Unity AI Gateway AI Spend Controls, allowing granular budget setting and alerts to manage escalating AI costs.
Databricks adds AI guardrails
Databricks introduces Unity AI Gateway Guardrails, offering pre-built and custom controls to secure AI applications against data leaks and harmful outputs.
Databricks Bolsters AI Agent Governance
Databricks enhances Unity AI Gateway with guardrails, cost controls, and service policies to manage AI agents at scale.
AI Security Infrastructure Becomes CMO Concern
Databricks' Lakewatch signals a critical convergence: AI, security, and data infrastructure decisions are now paramount for CMOs to enable trustworthy AI at scale.
Deutsche Börse uses GenAI for data migration
Deutsche Börse uses a custom Databricks App and generative AI to automate the migration of thousands of analytics notebooks, cutting redevelopment time by over 90%.
Databricks Launches Analytics Engineer Path
Databricks launches a new learning pathway for SQL practitioners to become analytics engineers, covering data modeling, pipelines, and AI agent deployment.
PipelineIQ: Databricks' AI for Sales Action
Databricks' PipelineIQ uses AI to turn messy CRM data into actionable sales guidance, focusing on 'Next Best Actions' rather than flawed forecasting.
Databricks Unifies Data Governance
Databricks integrates operational databases into Unity Catalog, simplifying governance, auditing, and cost attribution for all data workloads.
Data Quality: The AI Strategy
NYU Langone Health demonstrates how prioritizing data quality at the source is the cornerstone of any successful AI strategy, driving real-world value in healthcare.
Claroty's AI library decodes industrial devices
Claroty's new AI library uses a multi-agent system on Databricks to solve the critical identity crisis in industrial devices, improving security accuracy.
Databricks Unifies Clinical Data
Databricks' new open-source Site Feasibility Workbench brings clinical trial intelligence onto its Lakehouse, tackling data silos and improving auditability.
Databricks Unity Catalog Automates Data Security
Databricks Unity Catalog achieves general availability for ABAC policies, governed tags, and data classification, automating sensitive data protection.
Sports Data Gets Smarter
Databricks aims to unify sports data with its Lakehouse platform, turning player tracking and biomechanical data into actionable insights for competitive advantage.
Databricks Helps Consulting Firms Boost Profits
Databricks is empowering consulting firms to overcome margin pressure by unifying finance data and automating workflows, leading to significant improvements in cash flow and efficiency.
Databricks Syncs Postgres to Lakehouse Natively
Databricks unveils Native Lakehouse Sync, directly replicating operational Postgres data into Unity Catalog without pipelines, simplifying AI and analytics integration.
Databricks Driver Gets Faster, Feature-Rich
Databricks rolls out its open-source JDBC driver with significant speed boosts and new features for enhanced data connectivity.
Databricks Taps Students for AI Leadership
Databricks launches Student Fellows program to equip university students with data and AI skills, fostering campus leadership and career opportunities.
Databricks Unifies Lakehouse with Catalog Commits
Databricks launches Catalog Commits, enhancing its lakehouse with unified governance, improved interoperability, and multi-table transaction support.
AI Archives: Water Data Gets Searchable
Databricks uses multimodal AI to turn Sudan's scanned water archives into a searchable database for critical groundwater discovery.