Databricks

Unified Lakehouse platform combining Apache Spark, Delta Lake, MLflow, and Unity Catalog for data engineering, analytics, and AI/ML at scale.

When to Use

Building Delta Lakehouses with medallion architecture (Bronze -> Silver -> Gold)
Ingesting streaming or batch data with Auto Loader or Structured Streaming
Creating DLT (Delta Live Tables) pipelines with built-in data quality
Running ML experiments tracked in MLflow and serving models via Model Serving
Governing data assets across clouds with Unity Catalog
Deploying reproducible jobs and pipelines with Databricks Asset Bundles
Running SQL analytics on Delta tables via Databricks SQL Warehouses
Building AI/ML features with Vector Search and Feature Engineering