Java Database Connectivity, a widely used standard API through which applications and tools reach databases. SQL warehouses and clusters accept connections via the Databricks JDBC Driver, and Lakehouse Federation relies on JDBC when pushing queries down.
Also called Java Database Connectivity.
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Terms in this definition
- Standard deployment type
A Foundry deployment type billed per token that keeps processing of prompts and responses inside the Azure geography of the resource, meeting data residency needs at lower volumes.
- API
Short for application programming interface: a contract that client code calls programmatically, for example a web API secured with tokens or the Files, Images or Responses APIs.
- Serverless
Compute tier for single Azure SQL databases that scales automatically, pauses when idle and charges by the second. It is offered in General Purpose and Hyperscale, not Business Critical, and reserved capacity does not apply.
- Veeam Infrastructure Appliance
A hardened, minimal Linux (JeOS) ISO for running backup proxies, repositories and hardened repositories. It connects to a backup server but does not host one.
- Databricks
Analytics platform built on Apache Spark where data is processed in notebooks; Unity Catalog is the governance model it recommends.
- Lakehouse Federation
Azure Databricks' approach to query federation: foreign catalogs and Unity Catalog connections expose outside databases and catalogs for governed, read-only queries, with work pushed down to the source when possible.
Related terms
- ODBC
Open Database Connectivity, a standard driver interface that lets other tools query databases. Queries arriving through ODBC, JDBC or the SQL Statement API can all be answered from the remote result cache.