Delta Sharing ahora es OpenSharing

Delta Sharing is built for organizations that need to share data and AI assets across business units, partners or customers without locking that data into a single vendor or platform. The page highlights three primary use cases: internal line-of-business sharing (including building a data mesh across clouds or regions), B2B sharing, and data monetization for companies that sell data products. Customers cited on the page — including Atlassian, Shell, Nasdaq, Deutsche Börse, SafeGraph and YipitData — use it to distribute data to partners and clients across different clouds and platforms.

Unlike approaches that require copying data into a vendor-specific format or platform, Delta Sharing lets you share existing data in Delta Lake and Apache Parquet formats directly with any data platform, avoiding vendor lock-in. Data is shared live, without replication, across clouds and regions, and sharing via Cloudflare R2 can lower costs with zero egress fees. Recipients access the latest published version of the data directly from the provider using standard SQL, Python or BI tools, rather than needing a proprietary client.

Delta Sharing supports sharing of structured datasets as well as unstructured data through volume sharing, plus AI models, notebooks and code. Native integration with Unity Catalog lets you centrally manage and audit these shared assets across organizations. Databricks is also offering early access sign-up for Cross-Platform View Sharing and for Materialized Views and Streaming Tables Sharing.

Delta Sharing's native integration with Unity Catalog gives you a single place to centrally manage, govern, audit and track usage of shared data across organizations. This allows teams to confidently share data assets with suppliers and partners while still meeting security and compliance requirements. For added privacy, Databricks Clean Rooms provide a secure, hosted environment for collaborating with customers and partners on any cloud without replicating data, supporting computation in SQL, Python, R and Scala (with Java coming soon).

The page does not list specific pricing or plans for Delta Sharing. To evaluate it firsthand, you can try Databricks for free, which gives access to the Databricks Data + AI Platform where Delta Sharing and Unity Catalog integration are available. Data recipients who are not on the Databricks platform can also discover and access shared data products through Databricks Marketplace without needing a Databricks account.