Effective patterns for putting your data to work on Azure
Uses for an external metastore Every Azure Databricks deployment has a central Hive metastore accessible by all clusters to persist table metadata, including table and column names as well as storage location. By default, the metastore is managed by Azure in the shared Databricks control plane. Instead of using the default, you have the option […]
For the highest level of security in an Azure Databricks deployment, clusters can be deployed in a custom Virtual Network. With the default setup, inbound traffic is locked down, but outbound traffic is unrestricted for ease of use. The network can be configured to restrict outbound traffic. For data science and exploratory environments, it is […]