Databricks Lakehouse

Databricks is a unified analytics platform combining the best of data lakes and data warehouses. Built on Delta Lake (ACID transactions for Parquet files) and Apache Spark (distributed computing), Databricks lets teams build data pipelines, run analytics, and train ML models in one platform. Example: Ingest raw data to S3 (via Spark job) → Store in Delta Lake table → dbt transforms for analytics → BI tools query Databricks SQL → Data scientists train models on Databricks MLflow.