In this episode, Meagan Longoria talks about Databricks and helps us compare it to Fabric. The general conclusions is Databricks is still the mature tool, but Fabric is making improvements.
In reality, there is space for a hybrid approach and if you have to start somewhere with Fabric, it likely makes sense to start with Power BI and work your way back, where this value. We also talk about how the way Fabric is structured can sometimes lead to messy workspaces.
Links
- Items limitations in workspaces
- Conway's law (you ship your org chart)
- Fabric Guidance for Small Businesses (from Eugene)
- Fabric mirroring for Azure Databricks
- Semantic model refresh activity
Information
- Show
- FrequencyUpdated weekly
- Published9 July 2025 at 13:00 UTC
- Length35 min
- Season1
- Episode15
- RatingClean