# Powering Enterprise-Grade AI Applications & Agents with Operational Data

Spice AI partners with Databricks to help organizations build real-time, data-driven applications and AI agents. Through integration with the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform, Spice AI enables customers to build faster and more reliable AI apps and agents that extend across on-premises, cloud, and edge more rapidly with fewer errors at reduced cost.

[Get Started](https://docs.spice.ai/) [Read the docs](https://docs.spice.ai/building-blocks/data-connectors/databricks)

[Learn more about the Spice AI & Databricks partnership](https://www.spiceai.io/blog/databricks-partnership)

### With Spice AI + Databricks, Enterprises can:

Build high-performance, secure, and business-ready AI applications with unified access to your Databricks data and models.

#### 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.

### Native Support for the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform

Spice AI integrates with the Databricks Data Intelligence platform and features the following capabilities:

[**Databricks SQL Warehouse and Spark Connect** 
Integrations for high-performance SQL queries accelerated with **DuckDB** and **SQLite**.](https://spiceai.org/docs/components/data-connectors/databricks#spark-connect)  
[**Databricks Mosaic AI Integration** 
Model serving and embeddings integrations to bring **MosaicAI** alongside applications.](https://spiceai.org/docs/components/embeddings/databricks)  
[**Unity Catalog Support** 
Comprehensive support for **governance** and **security**.](https://spiceai.org/docs/components/catalogs/databricks)  
[**Apache Iceberg & Delta Lake Support** 
Query and management of **open format tables** via Unity Catalog.](https://spiceai.org/docs/components/data-connectors/databricks#delta-lake-s3)  
[**Service Principal Authentication** 
**M2M & U2M OAuth** authentication for enterprise-grade role-based security.](https://spiceai.org/docs/components/data-connectors/databricks#authentication)

## What Our Customers & Databricks Say

Healthcare Analytics and Patient Experience

> "Partnering with Spice AI has transformed how NRC Health delivers AI-driven insights. We reduced time-to-market from months to weeks - or even days - and empowered our developers to build dependable, patient-centric tools. Spice isn't just solving our data and AI challenges, it's redefining what's possible in personalized healthcare."
> 
> Tim Ottersburg
> 
> VP of Technology, NRC Health

Data Intelligence Platform

> "Nearly every enterprise is investing in domain-specific AI agents. Operational data is the key differentiator. We're excited to partner with Spice AI to unlock value on the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform and help customers turn data into intelligence."
> 
> Roger Murff
> 
> VP of Technology Partners, Databricks

### About Spice AI

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