The following era of Databricks SQL (DBSQL) dashboards, also called 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 newest product suite our workforce dropped at market. We used Lakeview to rapidly prototype new variations of our knowledge centric merchandise and truly present them to purchasers 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 capability.”
— 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 simply “Dashboards” as they’re now the default, typically accessible expertise. GCP non-public preview is coming quickly.
This new era of dashboards for the Databricks Knowledge Intelligence Platform contains the next capabilities:
- AI-assisted authoring: Databricks Assistant for Dashboards lets you question knowledge and generate visualizations by way of a conversational interface. Merely describe your required state in pure language and let the Assistant generate SQL queries, clarify advanced code, mechanically repair errors and paint a lovely image out of your knowledge.
- Simplified content material mannequin: Every part 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 together with your knowledge. This permits a quick preliminary load expertise and close to fast response to filter change with out having to attend for queries to rerun every time. After all, with the ability of Materialized Views, you profit from knowledge views which might be pre-computed and mechanically saved up-to-date because the sources change.
- Improved Visualizations: Dashboards showcase a smooth, fashionable and performant new visualization expertise that delivers 10x sooner chart rendering vs legacy, lovely visualization styling, and new options equivalent to improved coloration customization and sorted bar charts. Since public preview, we have added help for histograms, heatmaps, and mixture charts, in addition to customization for all the pieces from axis ranges to subject renaming.
- Scalable and safe distribution by way of the group: Dashboards help draft/publish, periodic electronic mail of PDF snapshots, and securely sharing to enterprise customers and teams within the group that simply need to eat 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 Knowledge 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 Knowledge Intelligence Platform, there are not any extracts to handle, no limits on knowledge dimension and no separate BI servers to scale.
What’s forward
Normal 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, coloration themes, and extra. Preserve an eye fixed out for added efficiency boosts, significantly with lots of or 1000’s of concurrent customers.
Whereas each the legacy DBSQL dashboards and the brand new dashboards will co-exist for a time period, we are going to ultimately consolidate on the brand new dashboarding customary and we encourage you to leverage our migration helper to improve your legacy dashboards at this time.
Within the meantime, be a part of us for the Knowledge Warehousing within the Age of AI Webinar, and enroll for Knowledge Warehousing, Analytics, and BI classes at Knowledge + AI Summit.
We stay up for seeing what you construct – onward and upward!
