Most teams assume faster real-time queries mean higher compute costs. We benchmarked Databricks' new RT Lakehouse engine across datasets from 1 million to 50 billion records to find out, and the results reset what "fast" costs on a lakehouse.

Databricks just replaced the engine behind DABs deployment. Here's what Direct Engine changes, why it matters, and how to migrate your existing bundles before Terraform support goes away.

We benchmarked Databricks' new full-text search index across tables from 100M to 10B rows. The result: a 10B-row word search dropped from 71 minutes to under 11 seconds: a 99.75% speedup! Here's how the feature works, how to set it up, and when it's not worth using.