Which Data Collaboration Tool: OpenSharing, Clean Rooms, Marketplace
Databricks, Thursday, November 5th, 2026
Databricks compares OpenSharing, Clean Rooms, and Marketplace, saying the relationship with the other party determines which to use.
Databricks explains its three data collaboration options.
OpenSharing gives known recipients, even those not on Databricks, live read-only access to tables, views, volumes, notebooks, UDFs, and AI models without copying data, and BI tools like Power BI and Tableau can read shared tables.
Clean Rooms provide a neutral space where up to ten parties combine data and run only mutually approved code, seeing results without exposing full underlying data.
Marketplace is a public storefront for files, tables, models, MCP servers, notebooks, apps, and SaaS, suited to providers who want to be discovered or consumers looking for data and AI products.