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What is this Photon Engine I keep hearing about?

MoJaMa
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โ€Ž06-17-2021 06:10 PM

 
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MoJaMa
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โ€Ž06-17-2021 06:13 PM

It's our new high-performance runtime, using a native vectorized engine developed in C++.

Please see our blog for a great overview.

https://databricks.com/blog/2021/06/17/announcing-photon-public-preview-the-next-generation-query-en...

Databricks SQL uses Photon by default. (You can turn it off)

Databricks DE/DS has an option to choose Photon as an engine for your compute intensive workloads.

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