Databricks
Databricks is a unified analytics platform combining data engineering, data science, and machine learning.
Our verdict
Who it's for
Unified analytics for data engineering, science, and ML
Who should look elsewhere
Expensive at scale
Pros
- +Unified platform
- +Great collaboration
- +Delta Lake
Cons
- −Expensive at scale
- −Complex dual billing (DBU plus cloud infra)
- −Steep learning curve
Key features
- ✓Unified analytics
- ✓Delta Lake
- ✓Photon engine
- ✓Serverless compute
- ✓Machine learning
- ✓Mosaic AI
- ✓SQL analytics
- ✓Data engineering
- ✓Collaborative notebooks
Pricing
| Plan | Price | Billing | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Community Edition | — | month | Limited features; Training; Open source |
| Jobs Compute | — | month | Scheduled workloads; 30-50% cheaper; Automated jobs |
| All-Purpose | — | month | Interactive workloads; Notebooks; Exploration |
| SQL Compute | — | month | BI queries; SQL analytics; Dashboards |