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What is Azure DataBricks ?

Microsoft Azure offers a cloud-based platform service called Azure DataBricks, an Apache-based analytics platform. It provides an interactive workspace that enables collaboration between data scientists, data engineers, and business analysts.


Apache Spark Based Analytics Platform

Spark in Azure DataBricks includes the following components:

  • Spark SQL and Data Frame

  • Streaming

  • MLlib

  • GraphX

  • Spark Core API


Apache Spark in Azure Databricks

DataBrick builds on Spark provides a zero-management cloud platform that includes:

  • Fully managed Spark cluster

  • An interactive workspace to explore and visualize.

  • A platform for running Spark-based applications.


Enterprise Security

Azure DataBricks provides enterprise-grade Azure Security.

  • Integration with Azure Active Directory allows you to run complete Azure-based solutions using Azure DataBricks

  • Enterprise-class SLA.

  • Azure DataBricks role-based access allows fine-grained user permissions to notebooks, clusters, jobs, and data.


Integration with Azure Services

It offers seamless integration with Azure DataBase and Stores, SQL Data Warehouse, Cosmos DB, Data Lake Storage and Blob Storage.


Integration with Power BI

You can also use BI tools such as Tableau Software via JDBC/ODBC cluster endpoints.




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