# Databricks (Beta)

## Overview

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Using Databricks as your data lake is in open beta and is available to all customers. Please share any bug reports and feature requests with your Panther support team.
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Panther supports using [Databricks](https://www.databricks.com/) as your data lake backend to store and search data.

See the [available databases here](/search/backend.md#available-databases). The `panther_rule_matches`, `panther_rule_errors`, and `panther_views` databases are not supported in Databricks.

### Panther features not supported on Databricks

Certain Panther features cannot be used with a Databricks backend, either because of a Panther-side or Databricks-side limitation. These features include:

* [Correlation rules](/detections/correlation-rules.md)
* [Search optimization](/search/backend/snowflake/configuration.md#search-optimization) (aka indexing)
* [RBAC per log type](/system-configuration/rbac.md#rbac-per-log-type)
  * A workaround is Databricks [Unity Catalog](https://docs.databricks.com/aws/en/data-governance/unity-catalog)
* [Alerts](/alerts.md) are not stored in and queryable from the data lake
* Query performance is slightly reduced compared to [Snowflake](/search/backend/snowflake.md)


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