Databricks Launches Data Sharing Initiative, Machine Learning Offering Databricks continues to expand its portfolio of big data software around the Databricks Lakehouse Platform – all designed to unify all data, analytics and AI workloads. By Rick Whiting June 01, 2021, 06:22 PM EDT Databricks has launched a project to create an open-source data sharing protocol for securely sharing data across organizations in real time, independent of the platform on which the data resides. The Delta Sharing initiative, part of Databrick’s open-source Delta Lake project, has already attracted support from a number of data providers, including NASDAQ, S&P and Factset, and leading IT vendors including Amazon Web Services, Microsoft and Google Cloud, according to Databricks.