Tech riderRev. 30 Sept 2026
Databricks Feature Store
- 1Runs onAPI, Web
- 2Costsfree trial
- 3Online storeYes
- 4Offline storeYes
- 5Point-in-time joinsYes
- 6Feature monitoringYes
- 7Deployment modelcloud
- 8Serving modesboth
8 lines stated Written from the maker's own pages: docs.databricks.com, databricks.com
Overview
Databricks Feature Store is ranked #8 of 17 in feature store software on Specifiction. It runs on API, Web. A free trial is offered.
Databricks Feature Store plans and pricing
All plansPay as you go Not published Monthly based on usage; per-second granularity. No up-front costs · Pay for products used · Rates vary by product, cloud provider, and region databricks.com · 30 Sept 2026
Compared on feature store software
- Online store
- Yesdocs.databricks.com
- Offline store
- Yesdocs.databricks.com
- Point-in-time joins
- Yesdocs.databricks.com
- Feature monitoring
- Yesdocs.databricks.com
- Deployment model
- clouddocs.databricks.com
- Serving modes
- bothdocs.databricks.com
Facts
- Purpose
- Databricks Feature Store is a central registry for the features used in AI and ML models.docs.databricks.com · 30 Sept 2026
- Governance and discovery
- Registering features and models in Unity Catalog provides governance, lineage, point-in-time joins, and cross-workspace feature sharing and discovery.docs.databricks.com · 30 Sept 2026
- Feature authoring
- Features can be authored as declarative Feature Views managed through Databricks pipelines or as feature tables populated by writing values to Delta tables.docs.databricks.com · 30 Sept 2026
- Feature Views status
- Feature Views and their feature materialization capability are in Public Preview.docs.databricks.com · 30 Sept 2026
- Model training and inference
- Models trained with Feature Store features automatically track feature lineage and look up the latest feature values at inference time.docs.databricks.com · 30 Sept 2026
- Training and serving consistency
- Databricks says using the same feature computations at inference as during training eliminates training/serving skew.docs.databricks.com · 30 Sept 2026
- Real-time serving
- Feature serving endpoints and online stores support serving features for real-time applications, with the main overview describing endpoints as providing millisecond latency.docs.databricks.com · 30 Sept 2026
- Integrations
- Supported third-party online stores include Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon Aurora (MySQL-compatible), and Amazon RDS MySQL, with availability differing by Feature Store mode.docs.databricks.com · 30 Sept 2026
- Python client
- The Feature Engineering Python client is distributed as databricks-feature-engineering on PyPI and is pre-installed in Databricks Runtime 13.3 LTS ML and above.docs.databricks.com · 30 Sept 2026
- Client limitation
- Feature Engineering and Feature Store APIs cannot be called from local or other non-Databricks environments, although local IDE development and unit testing are supported.docs.databricks.com · 30 Sept 2026
- Workspace requirement
- The current Databricks Feature Store requires a workspace enabled for Unity Catalog.docs.databricks.com · 30 Sept 2026
- Security and access
- Access to Unity Catalog feature tables is managed through Unity Catalog access controls.docs.databricks.com · 30 Sept 2026
- Pricing model
- Feature Store is billed at cost for underlying serverless compute, online store, and serving infrastructure, with no premium on top.docs.databricks.com · 30 Sept 2026
- Pricing components
- Materialization uses serverless compute, feature serving endpoints use the Model Serving SKU, and online stores use Lakebase compute priced by capacity units and replicas.docs.databricks.com · 30 Sept 2026
Company
- Headquarters
- San Francisco, California, United Statesdocs.databricks.com · 28 Sept 2026
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Sources
- docs.databricks.com/aws/en/machine-learning/feature-store· checked 30 Sept 2026
- docs.databricks.com/aws/en/machine-learning/feature-store/c· checked 30 Sept 2026
- docs.databricks.com/aws/en/machine-learning/feature-store/t· checked 30 Sept 2026
- docs.databricks.com/aws/en/machine-learning/feature-store/p· checked 30 Sept 2026
- docs.databricks.com/aws/en/machine-learning/feature-store/l· checked 30 Sept 2026
- databricks.com/product/pricing· checked 30 Sept 2026