Announcing Our Partnership with Databricks! | Spice AI
Announcing Our Partnership with Databricks!
Spice AI
Roger Frey
President and COO at Spice AIJune 10, 2025
Today we announced our partnership with Databricks, the leading data and AI platform! We're also excited to roll out new integrations that support the Databricks platform, enabling customers to build faster and more reliable apps and agents that extend across cloud, on-premises, and edge.
New capabilities now available to Databricks customers include:
- Databricks SQL Warehouse and Spark Connect integrations for high-performance SQL queries accelerated with DuckDB and SQLite.
- Databricks Mosaic AI model serving and embeddings integrations to bring MosaicAI alongside applications.
- Unity Catalog support for governance and security.
- Apache Iceberg & Delta Lake support for query and management of open format tables via Unity Catalog.
- Enterprise-grade security Service Principal M2M & U2M OAuth authentication for enterprise-grade role-based security.
With Spice AI's integrations with Databricks, you can now:
- Query Data For Operational Use-Cases: Execute fast, low-latency SQL queries across Databricks, on-premises, and edge sources with Spice.ai's unified engine, enabling real-time applications like inventory tracking or fraud detection.
- Embed AI With Applications: Integrate Databricks Mosaic AI model serving and embeddings with the Spice engine to deploy AI features, such as low-latency recommendation systems, search, or predictive maintenance.
- Streamline Data Governance: Manage Apache Iceberg and Delta Lake tables using Unity Catalog, enforcing secure access ensuring compliance and restricted data access.
- Optimize Workload Performance: Use Spice.ai to cache hot data, replicate high-demand datasets, and load-balance hosted AI endpoints, maintaining speed and resilience for applications like real-time dashboards.
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Spice AI's partnership with Databricks is available now. Explore the following options to suit your needs:
- Spice.ai Open Source: A single-node, open-source SQL query and AI-inference engine for developers.
- Spice.ai Enterprise: A scalable, multi-node solution for cloud or self-hosted Kubernetes, built for enterprise performance and scale.
- Spice Cloud Platform: A fully managed, cloud-hosted platform for building and scaling operational AI applications.
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