“This experience is not unique, but provides parity with other development environments,” said Park.
He pointed out that Databricks Apps has a lot of competition from business intelligence vendors supporting data apps such as Tableau, Qlik, Sisense and Qrvey. It also vies for market share with “mega vendors” including Microsoft, Oracle, SAP, Salesforce, ServiceNow, and Zoho. Then there are low-code and no-code apps such as Mendix, Appian, and Quickbase at the fringes of the market.
The most important “tactical capabilities” Databricks brings to the table with the new platform, Park noted, is the ability to reuse existing governance, launch from an open-ended serverless environment, and provide a single tool to manage data, infrastructure, and code applications all at once.