Databricks News: Free Tier, Multi-statement transactions, Declarative Automation Bundles, Genie Code
Summary
Databricks now offers a free tier for Lakeflow Connect, providing 100 DBUs per day per workspace, and has introduced multi-statement transactions in Unity Catalog that ensure atomicity with rollback capabilities. The platform also announced a Databricks One mobile app, a new AI runtime with pre-installed tools for GPU use cases, and enhanced Genie Code that understands project structure for automated development tasks. Additionally, Databricks Asset Bundles are now called Declarative Automation Bundles and use a faster direct engine, and a new 5X-Large SQL warehouse is available for processing terabytes of data.
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