10 months ago

At its annual https://www.databricks.com/dataaisummit/ in San Francisco today, Databricks is making a variety of announcements about its https://www.databricks.com/product/data-lakehouse, in areas ranging from https://thenewstack.io/generative-ai-how-companies-are-using-and-scaling-ai-models/ to data governance, lakehouse monitoring, query federation and a significant announcement around open table formats. Databricks’ event and announcements come the very same week that its rival’s https://www.snowflake.com/summit/ event is being held in Las Vegas, with numerous announcements made there yesterday, which I also covered.

Databricks says all of this functionality will be implemented contextually with customers’ data because of its tie-ins with Unity Catalog.

One could compare Lakehouse AI with the capabilities supplied to the Snowflake platform by https://developer.nvidia.com/nemo and https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/data-center/products/ai-enterprise/, https://www.dataiku.com/ and https://www.johnsnowlabs.com/.

Beyond all the LLM hoopla, Databricks is adding some good old-fashioned operations features to its platform with the preview of Lakehouse Monitoring in Unity Catalog.