Databricks SQL Analytics launched today, and it's a big addition to the product! SQL Analytics includes a new SQL workspace based on Redash and a query engine optimized for data lakes that gives up to 9x the price-performance of cloud data warehouses. https://databricks.com/blog/2020/11/12/announcing-the-launch-of-sql-analytics.html

Query performance in both execution time and price-performance is competitive without having to move your data to a different system...

And the new SQL workspace, based on @getredash, makes it easy to explore data, publish dashboards, and set alerts in SQL.

SQL Analytics also supports fine grained security control using standard SQL GRANT statements, ACID using @DeltaLakeOSS, and autoscaling SQL endpoints.

Also exciting to see many partner products that support SQL Analytics:

- BI Partners: Tableau, Power BI, Qlik, Looker, Thoughtspot
- Ingest Partners: Fivetran, Fishtown Analytics, Matillion, Talend
- Catalog Partners: Collibra, Alation