7 stories tagged databricks.
Databricks RBAC lets users assume a role with only that role's permissions for the session, blocking accidental access to sensitive data through accumulated grants. The feature entered Public Preview on July 22, 2026.
Managed Iceberg materialized views let external engines like Trino read your Databricks MVs. Now in Public Preview, they shift the lock-in calculus.
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.
Unity AI Gateway budgets set shared and per-user AI spend limits for Genie and gateway traffic, with alerts and blocking for admins.
Databricks Lakeflow Designer is GA for visual, governed data prep. Use it for analyst-built transforms, but meter previews and jobs.
Databricks PAT auto-scoping narrows long-lived tokens after 30 days of observed API use. Audit automation now before jobs fail.
The Databricks Data Intelligence Platform is a lakehouse that unifies storage, compute, governance, and AI on open Delta tables. Here is how the pieces fit and where the cost goes.