Databricks, What’s New in Databricks, September 2025?
Explore Databricks’ September 2025 update: native geospatial types & functions, PySpark native plotting, GPU and Serverless 17 improvements, quality-of-life upgrades like Default SQL Warehouse, Base Environments, a revamped compute policy form, Streaming Real-Time Mode, security & governance hardening (disable DBFS root / legacy), networking (new Private Link), delivery workflows (DABs templates, MLflow deployment), and usability refreshes across notebooks, query history, access request, dashboards, Genie relationships, alerts and SQL pipelines plus practical features like REPLACE, restore variables, SQL timestamp presets, Lakebridge, and more. Level-up data engineering, analytics, and AI on the lakehouse with the latest platform capabilities!
📌 Key Highlights (September 2025):
- 00:08 Geospatial data
- 06:42 PySpark Native Plotting
- 09:00 GPU improvements
- 12:21 Default SQL Warehouse
- 14:16 Base Environments
- 17:18 Serverless 17
- 19:28 OLTP app
- 21:09 MCP server (protocol)
- 22:44 New compute policy form
- 26:26 Streaming Real-Time Mode
- 28:45 Disable DBFS root and legacy features
- 30:40 New Private Link
- 31:35 DABs templates
- 34:48 Deployment with MLflow
- 37:30 Notebook experience
- 40:06 Query history
- 41:42 Access request
- 43:50 Dashboard improvements
- 46:25 Relationships in Genie
- 47:42 Alerts
- 48:35 Databricks SQL pipelines
- 50:07 Moving tables between pipelines
- 52:00 Create external Delta tables from external clients
- 53:13 Replace functionality
- 57:59 Restore variables
- 01:00:15 SQL editor: timestamp preset
- 01:01:35 Lakebridge
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