{"id":24533,"date":"2021-05-27T05:51:16","date_gmt":"2021-05-27T05:51:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rbsitsoftwaresolution.com\/blog\/databricks-introduces-delta-sharing-an-open-source-tool-for-sharing-data.html"},"modified":"2021-05-27T05:51:16","modified_gmt":"2021-05-27T05:51:16","slug":"databricks-introduces-delta-sharing-an-open-source-tool-for-sharing-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rbsitsoftwaresolution.in\/blog\/databricks-introduces-delta-sharing-an-open-source-tool-for-sharing-data.html","title":{"rendered":"Databricks introduces Delta Sharing, an open-source tool for sharing data"},"content":{"rendered":"

Databricks<\/a> launched its fifth open-source project today, a new tool called Delta Sharing<\/a> designed to be a vendor-neutral way to share data with any cloud infrastructure or SaaS product, so long as you have the appropriate connector. It\u2019s part of the broader Databricks open-source Delta Lake project<\/a>.<\/p>\n

As CEO Ali Ghodsi points out, data is exploding, and moving data from Point A to Point B is an increasingly difficult problem to solve with proprietary tooling. \u201cThe number one barrier for organizations to succeed with data is sharing data, sharing it between different views, sharing it across organizations \u2014 that\u2019s the number one issue we\u2019ve seen in organizations,\u201d Ghodsi explained.<\/p>\n

Delta Sharing is an open-source protocol designed to solve that problem. \u201cThis is the industry\u2019s first-ever open protocol, an open standard for sharing a data set securely. [\u2026] They can standardize on Databricks or something else. For instance, they might have standardized on using AWS Data Exchange, Power BI or Tableau \u2014 and they can then access that data securely.\u201d<\/p>\n

The tool is designed to work with multiple cloud infrastructure and SaaS services and out of the gate there are multiple partners involved, including the Big Three cloud infrastructure vendors Amazon, Microsoft and Google, as well as data visualization and management vendors like Qlik, Starburst, Collibra and Alation and data providers like Nasdaq, SP and Foursquare<\/p>\n

Ghodsi said the key to making this work is the open nature of the project. By doing that and donating it to The Linux Foundation, he is trying to ensure that it can work across different environments. Another big aspect of this is the partnerships and the companies involved. When you can get big-name companies involved in a project like this, it\u2019s more likely to succeed because it works across this broad set of popular services. In fact, there are a number of connectors available today, but Databricks expects that number to increase over time as contributors build more connectors to other services.<\/p>\n

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Why one Databricks investor thinks the company may be undervalued<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Databricks operates on a consumption pricing model much like Snowflake, meaning the more data you move through its software, the more money it\u2019s going to make, but the Delta Sharing tool means you can share with anyone, not just another Databricks customer. Ghodsi says that the open-source nature of Delta Sharing means his company can still win, while giving customers more flexibility to move data between services.<\/p>\n

The infrastructure vendors also love this model because the cloud data lake tools move massive amounts of data through their services and they make money too, which probably explains why they are all on board with this.<\/p>\n

One of the big fears of modern cloud customers is being tied to a single vendor as they often were in the 1990s and early 2000s when most companies bought a stack of services from a single vendor like Microsoft, IBM or Oracle. On one hand, you had the veritable single throat to choke, but you were beholden to the vendor because the cost of moving to another one was prohibitively high. Companies don\u2019t want to be locked in like that again and open source tooling is one way to prevent that.<\/p>\n

Databricks was founded in 2013 and has raised almost $2 billion. The latest round was in February<\/a> for $1 billion at a $28 billion valuation, an astonishing number for a private company. Snowflake, a primary competitor, went public last September<\/a>. As of today, it has a market cap of over $66 billion.<\/p>\n

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Airbyte announces $26M Series A for open-source data connector platform<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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