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Databricks very slow
Hello all, I recently got access to a Databricks cluster. In PBI Desktop I use the Azure Databricks connection type to access this data. Is it possible that Databricks is not primarily intended for...
The answer is as usual: it depends. It's no secret that the best and fastest data source for PBI is a relational database. But the speed depends on many factors. One of them being the throughput of the network and the quality of the driver. I have no experience with Databricks as the source for PBI, so can't really comment on this any more than I have. I can just add that getting data from a plain csv file is much faster than from other data sources (minus the relational db mentioned). It might also be faster to get data from a parquet file if the data is BIG.