A practical guide for data and infrastructure leaders: why replication and downsampling fall short, and how OpenSharing gives Databricks live access instead.
A full walkthrough: import a share into Unity Catalog, query on‑prem Iceberg and Delta tables live, and watch results return in seconds.
The four kinds of data that never had a path to Databricks — and why zero-copy, storage-layer sharing is the architecture hybrid analytics always implied.
Regulated data under GDPR, HIPAA, or residency mandates has to stay on-premises. AIStor lets Databricks query it in place, so compliance never has to be the trade-off.
At petabyte scale, replication means egress costs and downsampled fidelity. AIStor gives Databricks direct access to the full dataset, with nothing to copy or shrink.
By the time a batch sync completes, fast-moving data has already lost its value. AIStor closes that gap with live, read-only access instead of a sync schedule.
