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Open Databricks Makes Variant and Variant Shredding Generally Available 04 Aug 2026 ยท Ronald

Databricks Makes Variant and Variant Shredding Generally Available

Databricks has moved its Variant data type and Variant Shredding optimisation into general availability. The release is designed to preserve flexible ingestion for semi-structured data while automatically improving query performance across Delta and Iceberg workloads, including data used by analytics and AI applications.