That means you can use PySpark to query across both Power BI data and Spark tables hosted in Fabric. You can even use Spark’s R and SQL tools if you prefer.

After all, Hive has provided a SQL Query abstraction – and BI tool compatibility – over Hadoop for some time, so why would Impala be significant? In fact why is Cloudera even bothering with it?

Databricks SQL is a key component in the company’s ambition to construct a data lakehouse architecture that blends the best of data lakes, which are based on object storage systems, and traditional ...