Asserting Common Availability of Subsequent-Technology Lakeview Dashboards

The following era of Databricks SQL (DBSQL) dashboards, also referred to as Lakeview Dashboards, is now typically accessible on AWS and Azure. This new dashboarding expertise is optimized for ease of use, scalable and safe distribution, governance, and efficiency.

“Lakeview dashboards have been vital to the most recent product suite our workforce delivered to market. We used Lakeview to rapidly prototype new variations of our information centric merchandise and truly present them to shoppers and prospects earlier than investing within the improvement of the ultimate model. Our product improvement cycle and consequently our gross sales cycle has been minimize dramatically due to this capacity.”

— Chase Cabanillas, Chief Expertise Officer, Whip Media

In AWS and Azure, “DBSQL dashboards” have been relabeled to “Legacy dashboards” and “Lakeview dashboards” have been relabeled to only “Dashboards” as they’re now the default, typically accessible expertise. GCP personal preview is coming quickly.

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This new era of dashboards for the Databricks Information Intelligence Platform consists of the next capabilities:

AI-assisted authoring: Databricks Assistant for Dashboards allows you to question information and generate visualizations by a conversational interface. Merely describe your required state in pure language and let the Assistant generate SQL queries, clarify advanced code, robotically repair errors and paint a good looking image out of your information.
Simplified content material mannequin: Every little thing comprising the dashboard is consolidated into one file, making it a lot simpler to share that dashboard to colleagues or transfer it to a brand new folder. This consolidation facilitates export/import between workspaces, together with in Terraform scripts, and checking into your favourite model management system (e.g. Git).
Speedy interactive evaluation: Dashboards reside side-by-side along with your information. This allows a quick preliminary load expertise and close to quick response to filter change with out having to attend for queries to rerun every time. After all, with the facility of Materialized Views, you profit from information views which can be pre-computed and robotically saved up-to-date because the sources change.
Improved Visualizations: Dashboards showcase a glossy, fashionable and performant new visualization expertise that delivers 10x quicker chart rendering vs legacy, lovely visualization styling, and new options equivalent to improved colour customization and sorted bar charts. Since public preview, we have added help for histograms, heatmaps, and mixture charts, in addition to customization for every part from axis ranges to subject renaming.
Scalable and safe distribution by the group: Dashboards help draft/publish, periodic e-mail of PDF snapshots, and securely sharing to enterprise customers and teams within the group that simply wish to devour dashboards. No workspace entry or viewer license required. Quickly, we’ll even have help for embedding dashboards in your internet apps and pages.
Unification with the Information Intelligence Platform: Dashboards are ruled by Unity Catalog with lineage built-in, so your shoppers at all times know the place the insights are coming from. After all, as a result of dashboards can be found immediately as a part of the Databricks Information Intelligence Platform, there are not any extracts to handle, no limits on information dimension and no separate BI servers to scale.

Unification with the Data Intelligence Platform

What’s forward

Common availability is just the start. There are very many extra updates deliberate for dashboards within the coming months.

Anticipate the visualization layer to change into even richer – with help for boxplots, maps, bubble charts, cross-filtering, colour themes, and extra. Hold a watch out for added efficiency boosts, significantly with tons of or 1000’s of concurrent customers.

Whereas each the legacy DBSQL dashboards and the brand new dashboards will co-exist for a time frame, we’ll ultimately consolidate on the brand new dashboarding normal and we encourage you to leverage our migration helper to improve your legacy dashboards immediately.

Within the meantime, be a part of us for the Information Warehousing within the Age of AI Webinar, and enroll for Information Warehousing, Analytics, and BI periods at Information + AI Summit.

We look ahead to seeing what you construct – onward and upward!