Databricks Partnership Enables "Lakehouse" on Google Cloud
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Databricks, the company founded by the original creators of the Apache Spark analytics engine, is partnering with Google Cloud to enable the deployment of its namesake data engineering solution with another leading cloud provider. Databricks is now available on Google Cloud, AWS, and Azure.
Databricks users will now be able to create a "lakehouse" (which combines the capabilities of a data lake and a data warehouse) that is capable of data engineering, data science, machine learning (ML), and analytics on Google Cloud's elastic network. Databricks now integrates with Google BigQuery's open platform and leverages the Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), the companies said in a statement, enabling its users to deploy Databricks in a fully containerized cloud environment for the first time.