What is Azure Databricks?

Welcome to the Month of Azure Databricks presented by Advancing Analytics. In this video Simon takes you through what is Azure Databricks. He covers a history of the product and Apache Spark.

This is the first video in a month of videos looking at a load of key topics which will introduce you to Azure Databricks and associated tools.

Starting your first project with Azure Databricks? Well get in touch!

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If you like the videos but want to go deeper, then take a look at our Azure Databricks training course:

[Robay]

Who knew you could learn so much in 6 mins ? Great lesson, giving the history and the overall concept. Big up 👍🏾

[yagzyaman]

The best explanation of what Databricks is in youtube. Thank you a lot!

[asheetsinvhal]

Best explanation of Databicks. Started from Hadoop, then Spark and then cam to DB in 5mins..

[monishagowda]

Such a straightforward explanation. Thanks!

[concert_music]

Hi, thanks for this great intro! Where are the other videos in this series? Couldn't see a playlist for them.

[TomJemmett]

Looking forward to the rest of the series! I had wanted to learn data bricks before, but was a little terrified of setting up a cluster that costs might spiral. If there are any hints on how to run data bricks as cheaply as possible to learn that would be awesome! 😉👍

[udayradhe]

Wow!!! so much knowledge encapsulated in less 6 mins video, that too going so slow.

[misbahhasan]

Could you please make one video where you gonna create ML model in Azure Databricks and Deploy it on Azure kubernet service

[koenmunk]

Only thing I don't understand is what is "processing in memory", what is the advantage of it? and what would be an alternative?

[mateusztaflinski]

Really crearly explained. While searching I had a feeling that there are too many videos and articles that go too much into details and there is a lack of sources that provide a big picture about what is Spark, map reduce, databricks etc.

[Rahulu]

Hello, is Azure Databricks a relational Database? Does Azure Databricks supports incremental refresh in power bi? Does azure Databricks supports query folding?

If there are Microsoft documents which answers these queries woukd of great help.

Anyone please help.

[jakfrost]

what is difference between "azure data bricks " and "databricks" is there a "aws databricks"

[theenduser]

I desperately need help to write json file to azure table storage from Databricks

[manjuchoudhary]

It was introduction to spark...Much expected on databrick not spark