Announcing Apps on Databricks Marketplace

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Summary

Instantly access powerful data and AI applications directly from the Databricks Marketplace.

Apps deploy natively within your secure, governed Unity Catalog - your data remains where it is, in your environment.

Providers can securely distribute and monetize proprietary data apps to thousands of Databricks customers, unlocking new revenue streams

Data intelligence is reshaping how organizations turn data into outcomes. Teams no longer just want raw datasets - they want applications that put data to work immediately, like interactive dashboards, custom AI agents, and specialized analytics tools. Some of these apps run entirely on a customer's own data, and others pair a provider's proprietary data or logic with the customer's. Last year, we launched Databricks Apps , enabling teams to natively build and deploy secure data and AI applications using popular frameworks like Streamlit, Dash, and Gradio for Python and React, Angular, Svelte, and Express for Node.js. Today, we are taking the next major step in democratizing data and AI applications. We are thrilled to announce the  Public Preview of Apps on Databricks Marketplace.  Databricks customers can now discover, install, and run third-party data and AI applications directly inside their secure Databricks workspaces. For software vendors and data providers, this opens up a seamless, no-egress distribution channel to deliver immediate, interactive value to thousands of enterprises worldwide. The Challenge: The "Last Mile" of Third-Party App Procurement Historically, adopting a new third-party analytics tool or data application has been a security and engineering nightmare. For enterprise data teams, the process typically involves: Moving sensitive corporate data out of a secure environment to an external vendor’s infrastructure. Weeks or months of Infosec and compliance reviews to ensure the external app meets strict security standards. Complex setup involving custom ETL pipelines, API integrations, and fragmented identity management.

Apps on Databricks Marketplace completely flips this model. Instead of moving your data to the application, the application comes to your data. Key Capabilities of Apps on Databricks Marketplace Databricks Marketplace is an open marketplace for data as well as AI and analytics assets such as ML models, notebooks, applications.. By embedding application sharing directly into the Databricks Marketplace ecosystem, we are introducing a fast, unified, and enterprise-ready way to consume third-party software. 1. Seamless Discovery and One-Click Installation Users can browse a rich catalog of apps built by top-tier industry partners. Once you find an app that fits your needs, installation takes just a few clicks, automatically provisioning the application natively inside your workspace. 2. Built-in Governance with Unity Catalog Every third-party app installed from the Marketplace runs in a secure, isolated sandbox inside the consumer's Databricks account, where it inherits the security, auditing, and fine-grained access controls of Unity Catalog . Each app declares exactly which resources and scopes it needs, and the consumer explicitly authorizes them at install time. 3. A Massive New Distribution Channel for ISVs and SaaS Providers For providers, having to separately integrate, set up infrastructure, review compliance, and support every time a new customer is onboarded is a huge headache. With Apps on the Marketplace, providers publish once, and any Databricks customer can discover, request access, install, and run an app entirely within their own environment, with no vendor infrastructure to maintain and no per-customer onboarding overhead. Because the app runs natively on the customer's Databricks compute, procurement and compliance hurdles drop sharply, drastically shortening the B2B sales cycle. 4. Security and IP Protection, By Design Apps on Databricks Marketplace inherit the security and governance posture of the Databricks Platform, and add provider-side protections that traditional procurement models can't offer. Closed-source by default. Provider apps ship as closed-source containers. The consumer installs and runs the app in their workspace, but never sees the underlying code. Provider IP is protected end-to-end. Consumer-controlled egress.  Apps execute inside the consumer's Databricks account on serverless compute, with the same isolation as the rest of Databricks Apps — dedicated compute per app, network segmentation, encryption at rest and in transit. Any external API calls or data movement an app needs are declared up front, authorized by the consumer admin at install, and governed by the workspace's Serverless Egress Gateway (SEG) policy. Compliance ready. Supported in all regions where the Databricks compliance security profile is available.

A Native Part of the Databricks Stack Apps on Databricks Marketplace is a native part of the Databricks Platform, connecting directly to the rest of the stack: Unity Catalog for governance and data access. SQL Warehouse for analytical queries against governed data. Lakebase as a managed Postgres backend for app state, session storage, or low-latency operational data. Model Serving and Foundation Model APIs for inference - apps that need AI capabilities can call serving endpoints natively, with no external LLM provider required. Genie spaces and Agent Bricks for natural-language and agentic workflows embedded in the app experience. And more…

This means many of the launching apps are AI-ready out of the box. Providers benefit too: building on these primitives is faster than wiring up external services, and the consumer's security review is simpler because there's nothing extra to allowlist. Launching with an Elite Partner Ecosystem We are proud to launch Apps on Databricks Marketplace alongside 20 partners building production-grade applications across data and AI. These applications span a range of industry use cases: "Organizations want to collaborate on sensitive data, for measurement, enrichment, or AI,  but the mechanics of doing it securely have been painfully complex. To address this, we're excited to make Databolt Connect available as one of the first native applications on Databricks Marketplace. With Databolt Connect, users can securely prepare and link datasets within Databricks Clean Rooms...