The SunnyData Blog
Explore insights and practical tips on mastering Databricks Data Intelligence Platform and the full spectrum of today's modern data ecosystem.
How to migrate your ETL workloads and EDW from Snowflake to Databricks
In this blog, we outline the essential steps for migrating ETL workloads and EDW from Snowflake to Databricks. From data migration to report modernization, we break down five key phases for a seamless and efficient transition to Databricks.
Why no one migrates from Databricks to Snowflake
This blog explores why companies are increasingly migrating from Snowflake to Databricks, highlighting Databricks’ integrated platform, cost-efficiency, and comprehensive data and AI capabilities. The post examines the pitfalls of Snowflake's pricing and its struggle to replicate Databricks' functionality.
Fabric Meets Databricks: A Technical Review
This blog compares Microsoft Fabric and Databricks, focusing on pricing, features, governance, and scalability. It concludes that while Fabric suits smaller businesses, Databricks excels for medium to large enterprises due to its flexibility, innovation, and advanced data capabilities.
Why Migrate to Databricks?
Migrating to Databricks offers companies unmatched benefits, including cost efficiency, scalability, and advanced AI/ML capabilities. With a unified platform and robust data governance, Databricks empowers businesses to modernize their data estates, ensuring they’re future-ready and positioned for growth.
Step Away From “The State Of The Art”
This blog argues against the rush to adopt the latest AI technologies, emphasizing the importance of strong data engineering foundations and "Classic Analytics." It advocates for a balanced, pragmatic approach to AI adoption, ensuring long-term success over short-term gains.
Databricks AI/BI Series: A Technical Overview of AI/BI Genie
Databricks AI/BI Genie leverages advanced AI models and Unity Catalog to answer business-specific queries with precision. This blog explores its potential to surpass traditional dashboards, offering a powerful tool for real-time, self-service analytics in a governed environment.
Fabric Meets Databricks: A Preliminary Review for Data Practitioners
This article provides an initial analysis of Microsoft Fabric, comparing it with Databricks. It discusses why Fabric may not meet enterprise needs and explores potential integrations between Fabric and Databricks, highlighting how they can complement each other in data projects.
Databricks AI Assistant: SQL Review
Databricks' AI Assistant is now GA and excels in SQL tasks, leveraging Unity Catalog metadata. It consistently delivers functional SQL queries and follows instructions well, proving itself superior to alternatives like ChatGPT for SQL code generation. Watch the video for insights.
Elevating the Notebook Experience with Databricks' Latest Upgrade
Databricks' latest notebook upgrade offers superior design and performance, versatile language support, and improved user experience, making it a standout product for data analysis and exploration.
Databricks Myths vs. My Own Personal Experience
Transitioning to Databricks reduced costs by $19K/month and streamlined data operations. Learn how Databricks' unified platform simplifies data engineering and boosts efficiency in our latest blog.
Databricks AI/BI Series: AI/BI Dashboards
Databricks is making strides in AI/BI Dashboards with enhanced data prep and intuitive UI. Discover its pros, cons, and future potential in our latest blog.
Evaluating Databricks' Cost Control Features: A Closer Look at Budgets and Cost Dashboard
Evaluating Databricks' cost control features reveals strengths in granular tracking and user-friendly budgeting, but highlights areas for improvement in automated alerts and comprehensive expense tracking. Explore our insights on Databricks' budgeting tools.
Winter Is So Over: Quick Guide on the 18 Big Announcements
Here we present Databricks Summit 2024 18 biggest announcements, including Generative AI tools, AI-powered BI dashboards, open-source Unity Catalog, no-code data ingestion, serverless compute, secure data collaboration, built-in AI functions for data warehousing, and the all-new Delta Lake 4.0. Discover how these advancements can unlock the full potential of your data. Get the details and see how SunnyData can help - read now!
Cost Saving Best Practices For Databricks Workflows
Discover how to manage pipeline costs effectively with Databricks Workflows. This article offers practical tips to reduce total cost of ownership without sacrificing performance, and provides insights into understanding your costs better. Learn strategies like using job compute and spot instances, setting warnings and timeouts, leveraging task dependencies, and implementing autoscaling and tagging. Optimize your resource usage and get the most out of your Databricks environment. Read on for actionable advice to streamline your data processes.