Radical Speed for SQL Queries on Databricks: Photon Under the Hood
Description
Join this session to hear from the Photon product and engineering team talk about the latest developments with the project. As organizations embrace data-driven decision-making, it has become imperative for them to invest in a platform that can quickly ingest and analyze massive amounts and types of data. With their data lakes, organizations can store all their data assets in cheap cloud object storage. But data lakes alone lack robust data management and governance capabilities. Fortunately, Delta Lake brings ACID transactions to your data lakes – making them more reliable while retaining the open access and low storage cost you are used to. Using Delta Lake as its foundation, the Databricks Lakehouse platform delivers a simplified and performant experience with first-class support for all your workloads, including SQL, data engineering, data science & machine learning. With a broad set of enhancements in data access and filtering, query optimization and scheduling, as well as query execution, the Lakehouse achieves state-of-the-art performance to meet the increasing demands of data applications. In this session, we will dive into Photon, a key component responsible for efficien…
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