What is this Photon Engine I keep hearing about?
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06-17-2021 06:10 PM
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06-17-2021 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.
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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