Announcing Apps on Databricks Marketplace

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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.

1. 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.

1. 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.

1. 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 without raw data ever leaving their environment, offering secure, friction-free collaboration at scale. And the Databricks Marketplace lets us put this in customers' hands instantly." — Vince Goveas, Director, Product Management, Capital One Software

“Advertisers, retailers, and commerce media partners are increasingly looking for simpler ways to activate data and insights to drive business outcomes. By making The Trade Desk Connector App available through Databricks Marketplace, we're helping brands, retailers, and media partners more seamlessly connect audience, targeting, conversion, and measurement data to advertising workflows. The integration streamlines activation by enabling teams to securely leverage data directly from their Databricks environment, making it easier to put data to work and drive more value from their investments across the open internet.” —Gabe Richman, GM of Data Partnerships at The Trade Desk

“Deploying Datavant’s tokenization technology as a native Databricks App eliminates the need for data movement. By building directly on Databricks, we allow clients to securely tokenize healthcare records right where their data already lives in a simple and intuitive manner. Combining our trusted tokenization with Unity Catalog’s governance means organizations can safely unlock clinical value in minutes instead of months.” —Sara Livengood, SVP Product Management, Datavant Life Sciences

“Organizations are eager to scale Genie and AI across their lakehouse, but AI-ready data starts with AI-ready metadata - and for many teams, the effort required to curate context-rich, high-quality metadata is simply too large. That’s why we’re excited to bring StewardOps, our AI-Accelerated Metadata Generation app, to the Databricks Marketplace. It extracts business knowledge from your custom context sources, then turns them into Unity Catalog descriptions reviewed by data stewards before publishing.” — Noel Anson, Director, Databricks Business Unit, Slalom

“Data teams spend enormous effort translating complex business concepts - hierarchies, graph relationships, cross-database logic - into custom pipelines that break every time something changes.We're excited to launch the Prometheux app on Databricks Marketplace because it lets customers deploy our ontology engine and semantic layer directly into their workspace and start defining those concepts once, across all their connected sources. Prometheux compiles the logic into optimized pipelines automatically. Databricks Marketplace makes that accessible to every Databricks customer from day one.” — Davide Benedetto, CTO, Prometheux

“At Reflex, we believe the future of enterprise software is custom apps, not rigid off-the-shelf SaaS. With Reflex on the Databricks Marketplace, teams can build interactive applications in pure Python, connected natively to Unity Catalog and Lakebase and running entirely on Databricks' serverless runtime, with no app hosting to provision and no Javascript to maintain. It's the fastest path from Python straight to a production app." — Nikhil Rao, Co-Founder and CEO of Reflex

How It Works: From Discovery to Action

Getting started with Apps on Databricks Marketplace is simple and fits naturally into your existing workflow:

Browse: Navigate to the Marketplace tab in your Databricks workspace and filter by the new Apps category.

Install: Workspace admins select an application, review and authorize the permissions and resource bindings it needs, and click Install.

Launch: The app deploys onto a secure, serverless runtime in your workspace, generating a clean, dedicated URL.

Use: Business and technical users open and use the app.

What's next

This is just the start, and we're excited to continue investing across the experience in the coming months:

Bundled assets: Listings that ship the app with its supporting jobs, notebooks, dashboards, and libraries together, so consumers don't need any manual setup pre-install.

Richer provider analytics: Per-listing usage, install funnels, and DBU consumption visibility for providers.

Commercial monetization for apps: Building on our in-platform monetization pilot to bring transactability to Marketplace apps.

Apps on Databricks Marketplace bridge the gap between secure data governance and powerful business software. By combining Marketplace's discovery layer with the native, in-workspace runtime of Databricks Apps, organizations can now safely adopt third-party software faster than ever before.

For Consumers: Explore the Databricks Marketplace today to discover and install third-party apps.

For Providers: Read our developer documentation to learn how to create, publish, and monetize your own applications on the Databricks Marketplace.

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