# Databricks Sql Spark Sql

> Publicly sourced profile assembled by Optimly, in the Optimly AI Brand Index. Last refreshed 2026-10-04.

- **Business Profile:** https://optimly.ai/brand/databricks-sql-spark-sql
- **Dataset:** https://optimly.ai/brand/databricks-sql-spark-sql.json
- **Markdown:** https://optimly.ai/brand/databricks-sql-spark-sql/llms.txt
- **Official website:** https://databricks.com
- **Slug:** databricks-sql-spark-sql
- **Categories:** ai-machine-learning, data-analytics-business-intelligence, developer-tools

## Overview

- **Tagline:** The only SQL warehouse that provides data-warehouse-level performance directly on top of open data lakes (Lakehouse architecture).
Source: Brand's website (https://databricks.com) · 2026-10-04

- **Description:** Databricks SQL is a serverless data warehouse that allows users to run all their SQL and BI workloads directly on a data lake. Spark SQL is an open-source Apache Spark module for structured data processing that provides a programming abstraction called DataFrames and acts as a distributed SQL query engine.
Source: Brand's website (https://databricks.com) · 2026-10-04

## Offerings

- **Core capabilities:**
  - Databricks SQL
  - Apache Spark SQL module
  - Photon Engine
  - Unity Catalog.
Source: Brand's website (https://databricks.com) · 2026-10-04

- **Pricing:** Usage-based (DBUs) for Databricks SQL; Spark SQL is free (Open Source).
Source: Brand's website (https://databricks.com) · 2026-10-04

## Audience

- **Target industry:** Enterprise Data Teams, Data Engineers, BI Analysts, Fortune 500.
Source: Brand's website (https://databricks.com) · 2026-10-04

## Landscape

- **Competitors:**
  - Snowflake
  - Amazon Athena (AWS)
  - Google BigQuery
  - Apache Trino / Presto
Source: Brand's website (https://databricks.com) · 2026-10-04

Page last updated 2026-10-17.