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The self-hosted Databricks alternative

Cloud-based lakehouse platform built on Apache Spark and Delta Lake for data engineering, ETL, analytics and machine learning. Offers managed workspaces, collaborative notebooks, job scheduling, data governance, ML lifecycle tooling (MLflow) and model serving.

Alternatives to Databricks

Apache Flink is a distributed engine for stateful stream processing and batch analytics with event-time semantics, fault tolerance, and scalable deployment on clusters.

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What replacing Databricks actually involves

Every option on this page is open source and free to run on your own hardware, so you own the data and there is no subscription to cancel. In exchange you take on hosting, backups and updates yourself.

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