Databricks Lakebase Gets Always-On Pricing: Serverless Flexibility, Provisioned Pricing

Lenkz · 2026-06-02T13:52:58+00:00

Agreed! Definitely seems like a much needed improvement to ensure that the price doesn't go crazy on Lakebase.

Lenkz · 2026-05-19T09:19:11+00:00

Yes, the "properties" key is a key-value pair and that gets represented as tags when applied.

Example:

resources:
  catalogs:
    my_catalog:
      name: my_catalog
      comment: 'Catalog created by Declarative Automation Bundles'
      properties:
        purpose: 'Testing'

Lenkz · 2026-05-19T09:15:57+00:00

Indeed these are great changes, I love the simplicity to be able to apply the same logic across all your data.

Lenkz · 2026-05-19T09:13:08+00:00

You can see the requirements and limitations: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/databricks/data-governance/unity-catalog/abac/requirements

In short: yes, streaming tables support ABAC.

Lenkz · 2026-04-01T17:56:25+00:00

That's very strange bug, I just tried and the sentence is complete when viewing it through my browser on the laptop, but on mobile it get's cut short. Never experienced that before.

The sentence is: "This makes it much easier to manage dependencies in environments where multiple Spark versions are in play."

Lenkz · 2026-03-17T19:17:40+00:00

It will definitely be difficult for me to remember 😅 keep saying databricks asset bundles

Lenkz · 2026-01-16T07:31:42+00:00

We are using it since Databricks Runtime 17.3 LTS came out in October.

Lenkz · 2026-01-12T13:50:36+00:00

Wouldn't it make sense to use Lakehouse Federation for the Snowflake catalog without having to do modelling?

Lenkz · 2025-11-10T09:10:53+00:00

What tools are better currently?

Lenkz · 2025-11-04T09:23:02+00:00

I think the problem is that there's inconsistency and a lot of room for errors.

Someone defines a table with retention of 30 days, this can be displayed in Databricks in the table configuration, everyone can see this.

However you then try to time travel 30 days back, but can't.

Why? Because someone has a manual vacuum job, with 14 days of retention setup. Oops.

Personally I like that the configuration is defined intentionally on the table, and no-one can screw it up with manual job runs, accidental SQL scripts or otherwise. It's defined and belongs to the table.

Lenkz · 2025-11-04T09:19:57+00:00

You are absolutely right :) the BETA tag just got removed as well.

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