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Databricks AI Search Now Natively Supports Streaming Tables and Materialized Views
Databricks AI Search now natively supports Streaming Tables, Materialized Views, and Iceberg-based Managed Tables, enabling enterprises to build search and RAG apps on real-time data pipelines with lower index sync latency and operational costs.

Teaching with Databricks Free Edition: A Practical Guide to Enterprise-Grade Data and AI Courses
An analysis of Databricks' official guide on using the free edition to build complete data and AI courses, covering teaching value, course design tips, and practical considerations for educators.

Databricks vs. Oracle: Enterprise Data Warehouse Migration Trends
Migration from Oracle to Databricks is becoming a key trend in enterprise data architecture. This article analyzes the differences between traditional enterprise data warehouses and data lakehouses in cost, openness, and AI workloads to help technical decision-makers understand the real drivers and trade-offs behind migration.

Deploying RFD4-Proteina on Databricks: A Practical Guide to Protein Design AI
Learn how to deploy the RFD4-Proteina protein design model on Databricks, covering Serverless NVIDIA GPU compute, AI-assisted development, dependency management, and inference service wrapping.

How Hamlet Uses Databricks Lakebase to Test Changes Against Production Data
Hamlet uses Databricks Lakebase Postgres database branching to test changes on production data copies, balancing test fidelity and environment isolation—a referenceable engineering practice for AI application teams.

Databricks Launches Agent Memory: Giving AI Agents Long-Term Memory
Databricks launches Agent Memory on Agent Bricks, giving AI agents persistent long-term memory to fix context breaks in stateless models and lower the barrier to building memory.

A Practical Guide to Running dbt Efficiently on Databricks
Explore best practices for running dbt on Databricks, including compute resource configuration, incremental model optimization, performance tuning, and operational integration, to help data teams build efficient transformation pipelines.

Databricks Named a Visionary in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Analytics and BI Platforms for the First Time
Databricks enters the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Analytics and BI Platforms for the first time as a Visionary. This article analyzes the milestone, why it was positioned as a Visionary, and the impact on BI-AI convergence and industry competition.

Databricks AI Data Preparation Tools Compared: Mosaic AI Vector Search and Data Quality Solutions
A deep comparison of five AI data preparation tools on Databricks: SqlDBM semantic modeling, Mosaic AI Vector Search, Unstructured document parsing, Soda and Monte Carlo data quality monitoring—analyzing their strengths, weaknesses, pricing, and use cases.

How California Built a Behavioral Health Public Data Platform with Databricks
California DHCS built a public behavioral health county profile platform on Databricks Lakehouse, unifying fragmented county data into comparable, transparent analytics.

Funke Released: Native HL7v2 Medical Data Parsing on Databricks
Databricks launches Funke, providing native HL7v2 healthcare message parsing that reduces ETL overhead and helps clinical data teams integrate data into Lakehouse platforms more efficiently.

How Adidas Uses Databricks Genie to Power Data Analytics and Product Innovation
Adidas uses Databricks Genie to streamline data analytics, freeing analysts from data processing to focus on insights and product innovation. Here's what enterprises can learn.

Databricks Lakebase: A Database Architecture Rebuilt for AI Speed
Databricks launches Lakebase, a ground-up database rearchitecture built for AI-speed spin-up/shutdown and fragmented AI workloads. Here's what it means.

Workday Data Connect Joins Unity Catalog: Unified Governance for HR and Financial Data
Databricks announces Workday Data Connect federation in Unity Catalog Beta, enabling zero-copy read-only access to HR and financial data with unified access control, lineage, and auditing.

Databricks Launches Workday Data Connect Federation Connector: Unity Catalog Now Connects HR Data
Databricks' Workday Data Connect federation connector enters public beta in Unity Catalog, enabling direct federated access to HR and finance data without ETL pipelines.

A Practical Guide to Migrating dbt ETL Pipelines to Databricks
A step-by-step guide to migrating dbt ETL pipelines to Databricks Lakehouse, covering adapter setup, SQL dialect differences, incremental strategies, and data validation.

Migrating Power BI Dashboards on Databricks with GenAI: A Practical Breakdown
A practical breakdown of a Databricks App + GenAI tool that auto-converts DAX measures to SQL, maps visualizations, and deploys AI/BI dashboards — achieving ~90% automation.

IFCO's Large-Scale dbt Project Operations on Databricks
IFCO's data team shares hard-won lessons operating a massive dbt project on Databricks, covering performance, visibility, and debugging at scale.
NEAREST BY Join: How Databricks Scales…
NEAREST BY Join: How Databricks Scales Vector Search for Batch Processing
Databricks Runtime introduces NEAREST BY Join, extending vector search from serving-layer point queries to large-scale batch nearest-neighbor joins for RAG pipelines and semantic analytics.

How Genie Ontology Powers Databricks Product Development
Databricks uses Genie Ontology to inject enterprise data semantics into AI agents, powering internal product development and improving query accuracy.