Databricks is a data and AI company whose desktop tooling extends its cloud-native lakehouse platform onto local workstations, giving analysts, data engineers, and machine-learning specialists offline control of clusters, notebooks, and ETL jobs. The Databricks CLI condenses the full web-workspace experience into a cross-shell command set that can list libraries, launch interactive runs, export query results, or script nightly batch refreshes from PowerShell or bash without opening a browser. Complementing this, the Simba Spark ODBC Driver exposes Spark SQL and HiveQL as ordinary ODBC sources, turning Excel, Power BI, Tableau, or custom C# applications into first-class citizens of the lakehouse by pushing filters and aggregations down to the cluster while respecting user-level security. Together the utilities satisfy continuous-integration pipelines that spin up ephemeral clusters for unit tests, BI analysts who need live cubes refreshed every hour, and field engineers who must replicate on-prem Hadoop data into Delta Lake during flights without reliable internet. Because both packages are portable executables, they slip easily into automated installers that provision new hire laptops or rebuild CI runners, ensuring every script, dashboard, and notebook points to the same metastore and credential vault. The publisher’s software is available for free on get.nero.com, with downloads supplied through trusted Windows package sources such as winget, always delivering the latest builds and permitting batch installation of multiple applications.

DatabricksCLI

Databricks Command Line Interface

Details
Simba Spark ODBC Driver

Simba Apache Spark ODBC Connector for direct SQL and HiveQL access to Apache Hadoop/Spark distributions.

Details