Does databricks feature store support unstructured data ? images for example

anu_sh
New Contributor II

Hubert-Dudek
Databricks MVP

Yes it does. It is based on spark dataframes (data lake) so you can always load images to dataframe:

df = spark.read.format("image").option("dropInvalid", True).load("data/mllib/images/origin/kittens")


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-werners-
Esteemed Contributor III

Here are the supported data types for the Feature Store:

https://docs.databricks.com/applications/machine-learning/feature-store/feature-tables.html#supporte...

As you can see, image is not between them, but you could use BinaryType.