Databricks

Databricks is a data analytics and AI platform that enables organizations to process and analyze large-scale data using multiple languages like Python, SQL, R, and more. As data access grows more complex, ensuring consistent, fine-grained control is essential.

PlainID Authorizer for Databricks provides centralized policy management for data access within Unity Catalog, enabling organizations to define and enforce row-level filtering and column masking based on user attributes, roles, and context. PlainID acts as a central policy orchestration layer for SaaS applications such as Databricks, allowing enterprises to manage access decisions from a single platform and maintain consistent control and visibility across their entire technology stack.

The PlainID Authorizer for Databricks is a cloud-native, agentless integration, requiring no deployment changes or custom code.
The PlainID Authorizer for Databricks seamlessly integrates with Databricks' Unity Catalog to manage and enforce data access policies, enabling centralized creation, management, and governance through the PlainID platform.
It provides dynamic access control based on real-time user attributes, groups, and contextual conditions, enabling fine-grained data visibility.
With cross-platform orchestration, it unifies policy management across Databricks and other SaaS applications, streamlining governance throughout the organization while offering full transparency and auditability to support compliance.

1. The PlainID Policy Orchestration Point connects to Databricks to discover existing row-level filtering and column-masking functions and imports them into PlainID.
2. Access policies are managed and created centrally in the Policy Administration Point for consistent control across all SaaS vendors.
3. Policies are then deployed to the Databricks platform.
4. Users authenticate to Databricks, query data, build reports, Dashboards and create advanced analytics etc.
5. Databricks enforces access based on PlainID-managed policies, ensuring users see only authorized data.