Make sense of the lakehouse.

Databricks is the lakehouse platform: Spark-powered engineering, warehousing, governance and AI on one set of open tables. Where data engineering and analytics finally share a roof.

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Lakehouse platform

What is Databricks?

A lakehouse platform where large-scale data engineering, analytics and AI all run on one governed foundation.

CategoryLakehouse platform

Best forEngineering meets AI

Owned byDatabricks, Inc.

My takeDeep power, steep curve

Inside Databricks

06 tools

The platform is broad. These are the six pieces an analyst actually meets.

NbAuthoring

Notebooks & Workspace

Collaborative Spark, SQL and Python notebooks, where the engineering half of the house lives.

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SqWarehouse

Databricks SQL

The serverless SQL warehouse and dashboards. The front door for the BI crowd, and for me.

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UcGovernance

Unity Catalog

One catalogue for tables, models, lineage and access. The governance layer everything routes through.

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DlStorage

Delta Lake

The open table format the lakehouse stands on. Worth understanding even if you never touch it directly.

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GnAI

AI/BI Genie

Conversational analytics over governed data: ask in plain language, get a queried answer.

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MoML & AI

Mosaic AI

Build, tune and serve models and agents on the same platform as the data.

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Most watched · Databricks

New to Databricks, or new to my Databricks content? Start with the three the community watched most.

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Tableau 2025.1 Features | Release Overview | See Timestamps

Tableau 2025.1 is here, and a lot of it is already live as a rolling release, so let's go through every feature and the ones I'm still cautious about.

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Tableau 2025.3 Release: What's New in Pulse, Desktop, Public and more.

There are no big hitters in 2025.3, but it's packed with the small quality-of-life updates that quietly justify Tableau's premium price.

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Meet Hex, an AI-Powered Analytics Platform with Notebooks, Apps and more: featuring Rachel Herrera

Hex wants to be the best tool for data work in general, not the best dashboard tool, so you switch cells instead of switching tabs.

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Official sources ↗

Useful even before I have made a thing: the latest from Databricks itself. Every link in this section leaves just-tim and opens at the official source.

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