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Unity Catalog ABAC can now mask columns and filter rows for requests an agent makes on a user's behalf. Databricks names three access paths the control misses, starting with personal access tokens.
Databricks changed how dbt tasks refresh materialized views and streaming tables on 20 August 2026. Jobs that already had Performance optimized turned off for cost now pick up 4 to 6 minute startup latency.
Databricks set an end-of-life date of 30 September 2026 for the Supervisor API (Beta). Neither the AWS nor the Azure August 2026 release notes list the deprecation, and Beta is on by default on Premium.
Querying data that lives in another cloud can cost more in transfer fees than in compute. Here is how BigQuery Omni, Snowflake and Databricks each handle cross-cloud reads in 2026, with the per-TB numbers that decide
Databricks LTAP unifies transactions and analytics on one copy of data in the lake; Snowflake answers with Snowflake Postgres and Unistore. How each kills the ETL pipeline, and which fits your stack in 2026.
Databricks Lakehouse//RT runs real-time queries directly on Delta and Iceberg at sub-100ms and 12,000 QPS. We compare it with ClickHouse, Apache Druid and Apache Pinot on latency, concurrency, cost and ops burden.
