Databricks launches FILE type for native unstructured data
matei_zaharia · x · 2026-09-01
Databricks introduced the FILE type, allowing documents, images, audio, and video to behave like any other column in your lakehouse. Teams can query and process multimodal data while applying the same fine-grained access controls used for standard tables.
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