Databricks Delta Sharing provides an open solution to securely share live data from your lakehouse to any computing platform.
Key benefits
Open cross-platform sharing
Avoid vendor lock-in, and easily share existing data in Delta Lake and Apache Parquet formats to any data platform.
Share live data with no replication
Share live data across data platforms, clouds or regions without replicating or copying it to another system.
Centralized governance
Centrally manage, govern, audit and track usage of the shared data on one platform.
Marketplace for data products
Build and package data products, including data sets, ML models and notebooks once and distribute anywhere through a central marketplace.
Privacy-safe data cleanrooms
Easily collaborate with your customers and partners on any cloud via a secure hosted environment while safeguarding data privacy.
How it works
Native integration with the Databricks platform
Native integration with the Unity Catalog allows you to centrally manage and audit shared data across organizations. This lets you confidently share data assets with suppliers and partners for better coordination of your business while meeting security and compliance needs.
Easily manage shares
Create and manage providers, recipients, and shares with a simple-to-use UI, SQL commands or REST APIs with full CLI and Terraform support
Discover and access data products through an open marketplace
Easily discover, evaluate and gain access to data products including data sets, machine learning models, dashboards and notebooks from anywhere, without the need to be on the Databricks platform.
Privacy-safe data cleanrooms
Collaborate with your customers and partners on any cloud in a privacy-safe environment. Securely share data from your data lakes without data replication. Meet collaborators on their preferred cloud and provide them the flexibility to run complex computations and workloads in any language — SQL, R, Scala, Java and Python. Guide collaborators through common use cases using predefined templates, notebooks and dashboards, accelerating time to insights.
Use cases
Build Data Mesh with Delta Sharing to securely share data with business units and subsidiaries across clouds or regions without copying or replicating the data.
Securely share data with your partners and suppliers without requiring them to be on the Databricks platform.
Distribute and monetize data products — data sets, machine learning models and dashboards — without the need for customers to be on the Databricks platform.
Customers
An open ecosystem
Access the latest published version directly from the provider in easy-to-use SQL, Python or BI tools.
