This document provides an overview of Azure Databricks, including:
- Azure Databricks is an Apache Spark-based analytics platform optimized for Microsoft Azure cloud services. It includes Spark SQL, streaming, machine learning libraries, and integrates fully with Azure services.
- Clusters in Azure Databricks provide a unified platform for various analytics use cases. The workspace stores notebooks, libraries, dashboards, and folders. Notebooks provide a code environment with visualizations. Jobs and alerts can run and notify on notebooks.
- The Databricks File System (DBFS) stores files in Azure Blob storage in a distributed file system accessible from notebooks. Business intelligence tools can connect to Databricks clusters via JDBC