11 stories tagged databricks.
Databricks MCP connectors for Genie One and Genie Code are GA, covering seven external tools governed through Unity Catalog and Unity Gateway with per-user OAuth and full audit logging.
Automatic change data feed (Auto CDF) GA shifts CDC from write time to query time. MERGE and UPDATE run 15% faster, but read costs move the other way.
Databricks ABAC context attributes are Unity Catalog row filter and column mask conditions that bind to the calling OAuth application. Shipped in Beta on August 21, 2026, they let you scope a policy to request.client_id so an agent querying on behalf of a user sees only that user's rows while direct workspace access stays unrestricted.
Unity AI Gateway is now GA, bringing centralized AI traffic control, provider routing, MCP governance, and cost monitoring under Unity Catalog.
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.