Announcing Databricks Serverless SQL

Databricks SQL already provides a first-class user experience for BI and SQL directly on the data lake, and today, we are excited to announce another step in making data and AI simple with Databricks Serverless SQL. This new capability for Databricks SQL provides instant compute to users for their BI and SQL workloads, with minimal management required and capacity optimizations that can lower overall cost by an average of 40%. This makes it even easier for organizations to expand adoption of the lakehouse for business analysts who are looking to access the rich, real-time datasets of the lakehouse with a simple and performant solution.

Under the hood of this capability is an active server fleet, fully managed by Databricks, that can transfer compute capacity to user queries, typically in about 15 seconds. The best part? You only pay for Serverless SQL when users start running reports or queries.

Organizations with business analysts who want to analyze data in the data lake with their favorite BI tools will benefit from this capability. First, connecting BI tools to Serverless SQL is easy, especially with built-in connectors using optimized JDBC/ODBC drivers for easy authentication support and high performance.

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