Databricks
Unified data platform built on Apache Spark, Delta Lake, and MLflow. Strong for ML training and feature engineering on big data.
Data Warehouses Intermediate
Category
Data Warehouses
Difficulty
Intermediate
When to use
You're running Spark-scale ETL, training models on terabytes, and want notebook + job + MLflow in one place.
When not to use
Your workload fits in Postgres, your team wants BI-first governance, or you're allergic to JVM config.
Alternatives
Snowflake BigQuery AWS EMR Ray on Kubernetes