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Databricks SQL

Warehouses, the SQL warehouse compute model, materialized views, and AI/BI dashboards: making Databricks SQL fast without overpaying for compute.

Illustrative chart showing standard performance mode consuming roughly 30 percent fewer DBUs than performance-optimized mode for Databricks managed Iceberg materialized view refreshes, with performance mode at 100 DBUs and standard mode at 70 DBUs per refresh.

Engineering

Databricks managed Iceberg materialized views, explained

Managed Iceberg materialized views let external engines like Trino read your Databricks MVs. Now in Public Preview, they shift the lock-in calculus.

Jul 13, 2026

Abstract data visualization suggesting sub-second query latency with a dense band of concurrent user connections, illustrating the Lakehouse Real-Time serving engine target workload of thousands of concurrent users with sub-second SQL reads.

Databricks

Databricks Lakehouse//RT: sub-second SQL reads in beta

Lakehouse Real-Time is a serverless SQL warehouse for sub-second reads against Unity Catalog tables. It targets thousands of concurrent users but only supports SELECT queries via the Statement Execution API, and it is in Beta.

Lars Cornelissen · Jul 6, 2026