Containerized Databricks/Spark database

knight007
New Contributor II

Hello. I'm fairly new to Databricks and Spark.

I have a requirement to connect to Databricks using JDBC and that works perfectly using the driver I downloaded from the Databricks website ("com.simba.spark.jdbc.Driver")

What I would like to do now is have a locally running instance of a database in docker that I can connect to using the same driver. I'd like to automatically initialise the database by creating tables when it starts up. Very much like how you would use docker-entrypoint-initdb.d when creating tables on startup for Postgresql.

I'd then like to insert some data and run some tests locally.

Is any of this possible?