Firehose Hydration for Your AI-Ready Lakehouse with Databricks and CData Sync

Since its founding in 2013, Databricks has continually reimagined what data platforms can be. It pioneered the lakehouse, unified governance through Unity Catalog, and made ingestion simpler with Lakeflow Connect.

Now, Databricks is opening a new era of intelligence by bringing OpenAI models directly into its platform. GPT-5 and future OpenAI models will run natively inside the lakehouse, giving enterprises direct access to the world’s most advanced AI where their governed data already lives.

That momentum has made Databricks the most exciting space in enterprise data today. Every innovation — from Delta Lake and Unity Catalog to Mosaic AI and Lakeflow — helps organizations move faster and act smarter. But the value of those capabilities depends on one essential ingredient: reliable, complete data flowing into the lakehouse.