Databricks SQL
Run all SQL and BI applications at scale with up to 12x better price-performance, a unified governance model, open formats and APIs, and your tools of choice — no lock-in.
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Feature Detail | SQL Classic | SQL Pro | SQL Serverless | |
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Data Exploration and | Intelligent auto complete, ANSI SQL & Rest API | Intelligent auto complete, ANSI SQL & Rest API | Intelligent auto complete, ANSI SQL & Rest API | |
Performance | Massively parallel processing | Massively parallel processing & Predictive I/O | Massively parallel processing & Predictive I/O | |
SQL ETL/ELT | Streaming tables | Streaming tables, materialized views, query federation, and workflows integration | Streaming tables, materialized views, query federation, and workflows integration | |
Data Science and ML | Python UDF, notebooks integration & geospatial | Python UDF, notebooks integration & geospatial | ||
High Concurrency BI | Full managed compute, Intelligent Workload Management, & Query Result Caching | |||
Governance and Manageability | Query profiling, Unity Catalog integration & platform manageability | Query profiling, Unity Catalog integration & platform manageability | Query profiling, Unity Catalog integration & platform manageability | |
Enterprise Security | See Platform Capabilities and Add-Ons for details |
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3 During preview, all Materialized View and Streaming Table creations and refreshes will be billed at the SQL Serverless rate
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A serverless cluster will automatically perform regular system-generated tasks to optimize and vacuum Materialized Views and Streaming Tables. These tasks will utilize DBUs at a serverless background maintenance service rate.