The Azure Portal, where users can launch Databricks with a single click; Azure Active Directory, which enables single sign-on so that users can get started with Databricks immediately; ...

Databricks can run Python, Spark Scholar, SQL, NC SQL, and other platforms. It comes packaged with its own user interface as well as ways to connect to endpoints such as JDBC connectors.

Because this is essentially a first-party Azure service, users will also get all of the usual Azure SLAs and be able to deliver support to their joint customers — a group of Databricks engineers ...