---
title: "Databricks × LeanScale: how we run Databricks"
type: "partner"
partner: "Databricks"
tier: "Deployed"
practice: "Data & AI layer"
category: "Data & Lakehouse"
vendor_url: "https://databricks.com"
publisher: "LeanScale"
date_modified: "2026-10-06"
canonical_url: "https://www.leanscale.team/knowledge/partners/databricks/"
source: "LeanScale Knowledge Hub, https://www.leanscale.team/knowledge"
license: "Free to quote and cite with attribution to LeanScale."
---

# How LeanScale runs Databricks

Databricks is part of the LeanScale data and AI layer in Data & Lakehouse. Our teams implement, migrate and operate it inside live client environments.

**Tier:** Deployed. We run it in production.

**Where it sits:** Data & AI, Data & Lakehouse.

- Native integrations in our stack: 6
- Hub documents: 3

## How Databricks fits the rest of the stack

Headless readiness and native integrations, read off the vendors’ own pages. Nothing here is asserted from memory.

**Connects natively with 6 partners we run:** [Gong](https://www.leanscale.team/knowledge/partners/gong/), [Fivetran](https://www.leanscale.team/knowledge/partners/fivetran/), [Hightouch](https://www.leanscale.team/knowledge/partners/hightouch/), [Looker](https://www.leanscale.team/knowledge/partners/looker/), [Sigma Computing](https://www.leanscale.team/knowledge/partners/sigma/), [Tableau](https://www.leanscale.team/knowledge/partners/tableau/).

## What we’ve published on Databricks

1 customer stories, 2 podcast episodes.

- [Replatforming a decade-old marketing automation estate: the audit is the project](https://www.leanscale.team/knowledge/customers/replatforming-a-long-established-marketing-automation-stack/) (Customer story)
- [Ep. 88: Why AI Won't Close Your Biggest Deals](https://www.leanscale.team/knowledge/podcast/michael-kiernan-nextdoor-ai-wont-close-deals/) (Podcast)
- [Ep. 68: Clarity Over Chaos: A CRO's Playbook for Category-Defining Companies](https://www.leanscale.team/knowledge/podcast/josh-heller-clarity-over-chaos/) (Podcast)

Everything on Databricks: https://www.leanscale.team/knowledge/tools/databricks/

## Work with LeanScale

**Running Databricks?** Embedded LeanScale teams build, migrate and run Databricks alongside the rest of your stack, on a flat fee. Talk to us: https://www.leanscale.team/contact-us

**Work at Databricks?** Update your Arsenal profile so Databricks is in every recommendation we make in Data & Lakehouse. Update your profile: https://partners.leanscale.team/profile/?v=databricks. See the programme: https://partners.leanscale.team/?for=Databricks

All 141 partners: https://www.leanscale.team/knowledge/partners/

## Canonical

https://www.leanscale.team/knowledge/partners/databricks/