The components of the Data Intelligence Platform
The Data Intelligence Platform allows your entire organization to leverage your data and AI. It’s built on a lakehouse architecture to provide an open, unified foundation for all data and governance layers. It is powered by a Data Intelligence Engine, which understands the context of your data. For practical purposes, let’s talk about the components of the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform:

Figure 1.1 – The components of the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform
Let’s check out the following list with the descriptions of the items in the figure:
- Delta Lake: The data layout within the Data Intelligence Platform is automatically optimized based on common data usage patterns
- Unity Catalog: A unified governance model to secure, manage, and share your data assets
- Data Intelligence Engine: This uses AI to enhance the platform’s capabilities
- Databricks...