5 Challenges Querying Data in Databricks + How to Overcome Them

Databricks is a lakehouse architecture platform that enables organizations to break down data silos and store enterprise data in a single centralized repository with unified data governance. However, despite its promises, Databricks users often encounter specific challenges in querying log and event data, including managing data pipelines, parsing diverse log formats, handling complex log data, limited query support, and alerting limitations. To overcome these challenges, organizations can integrate Databricks with external query engines or tools that provide solutions for log management and analytics use cases, such as OpenSearch or Elasticsearch, Delta Live Tables, JSON FLEX, or ChaosSearch, which is a powerful new solution that brings log analytics natively to the Databricks ecosystem.