Accelerate search queries with full-text search indexes on Databricks
Databricks has introduced full-text search indexes in Beta, designed to significantly accelerate substring and keyword queries on large text datasets. This new feature, available on Databricks Runtime 18.2 for Unity Catalog managed tables, allows users to create indexes with a simple SQL statement, automatically optimizing searches without requiring application changes. Early adopters have reported speedups of over 100x on petabyte-scale tables, enabling new use cases in areas like log analytics, security investigations, and compliance auditing. AI
IMPACT Accelerates text-based data analysis, potentially enabling new AI/ML applications on large datasets.