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Overview

As enterprises scale their use of Databricks to support advanced analytics, data engineering, and AI/ML workloads, they often encounter new challenges: how to extend governed data access to more users, how to support real-time decision-making, and how to operate more efficiently across a distributed, hybrid cloud landscape.

The Denodo Platform addresses these challenges by adding a logical data management layer on top of your existing Databricks environment. This layer unifies access to all enterprise data, whether it lives in Databricks, SaaS applications, legacy systems, or on-premises databases, so you can deliver AI-ready, business-friendly data to any user or application, with consistency and control.

Together, the Denodo Platform and Databricks form a future-ready infrastructure that balances centralized processing power with agile, distributed data access, maximizing the value of your lakehouse investment across the enterprise.

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Key Capabilities

The Denodo Platform enhances Databricks environments with intelligent data delivery capabilities that help organizations scale impact while simplifying operations:

Semantic Consistency for Business-Ready Data

The Denodo Platform adds a unified semantic layer that standardizes data definitions, enriches metadata, and simplifies discovery. Business users and AI models can consume trusted data without requiring custom SQL or deep technical expertise—reducing friction and improving data literacy.

Real-Time, On-Demand Access

Not all data needs to be replicated into the lakehouse. The Denodo Platform enables real-time, live access to source systems for operational use cases such as AI agent responses, personalized services, and up-to-date dashboards—complementing Databricks’ strengths in batch and streaming analytics.

Accelerated GenAI Development

The Denodo AI SDK simplifies GenAI app development with pre-built APIs that streamline RAG workflows, LLM integration, and manage embeddings, while enforcing security and governance. It reduces custom coding, speeds time-to-value, and provides AI agents with access to trusted, context-rich data.

Self-Service Data Marketplace

With the Denodo Data Catalog, non-technical users gain an intuitive interface to explore, evaluate, and request access to data across the enterprise. Integrated with Unity Catalog, it provides a unified data governance experience with built-in support for endorsements, data quality feedback, and policy enforcement.

Centralized Security Across a Distributed Landscape

As data sprawls across hybrid and multi-cloud environments, the Denodo Platform enforces consistent, fine-grained security and access policies—regardless of where the data resides. This enables governance and compliance to be maintained even as data landscapes grow more complex.

Performance Optimization and Cost Efficiency

The Denodo Platform boosts query performance with caching, pushdown optimization, and an embedded MPP engine. FinOps dashboards and AI-assisted tuning help teams manage costs and resource usage, enabling faster insights and more value from the lakehouse—with less operational overhead.

Reference Architecture

The Denodo Platform integrates deeply with Databricks, leveraging SparkSQL and an embedded MPP engine to support open formats like Delta Lake, Iceberg, and Parquet. Compatible with Unity Catalog, it extends fine-grained governance across your ecosystem-enabling a unified architecture for high-performance analytics and real-time use cases across distributed data.

Reference Architecture

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