The Databricks Product Suite – A Visual Tour

The Databricks Lakehouse platform is an expansive product that caters to personas such as data engineers, data scientists, and business analysts. It also caters to administrator personas such as platform administrators and database administrators. As we discuss core concepts in subsequent chapters, we will have to refer to other persona-specific features. Familiarity with the platform will allow us to navigate to the correct feature or function when referred.

In this chapter, we will take a visual tour of the Databricks Lakehouse platform, with an emphasis on the Databricks SQL product. We will use the official Lakehouse infographic from Figure 1.3 as our guiding light to navigate through the Databricks Lakehouse platform and introduce, at a very high level, the features and functionalities and how they fit together.

We will use screenshots throughout, and you are encouraged to navigate accordingly in your instance of Databricks...