Exploring Azure Databricks

In this section, we will explore the different features of Azure Databricks. However, we will start by defining Azure Synapse Analytics.

Azure Synapse Analytics

Databricks is a data, analytics, and AI company. This is a link to their platform: https://www.databricks.com/. They were the first creators of the open source versions of Apache Spark, Delta Lake, and MLflow. They used some of the architectural components of these services to compose Databricks. They tried to unify the innovation of the process within data science and data engineering.

Databricks offers an interactive workspace, helping to automate the production workflow. This entire workspace is fully managed, and Azure is the channel that Databricks uses to deliver a solution that can be deployed, regardless of the underlying infrastructure, such as servers and virtual machines.

Azure Databricks features

Azure Databricks offers multiples features:

• Exploiting the Spark engine...