Use IDEs with Databricks

You can connect many popular third-party integrated development environments (IDEs), such as Visual Studio Code, to a Databricks cluster or a Databricks SQL warehouse. This allows you to write code on your local development machine and then run that code remotely on Databricks.

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Databricks Connect

Use common IDEs, notebooks servers, or the Spark shell to run local Python code on a remote Databricks workspace.

Databricks extension for Visual Studio Code

Use Visual Studio Code to run local Python, R, Scala, and SQL code on a remote Databricks workspace.

Databricks Driver for SQLTools

Use Visual Studio Code to interact with Databricks SQL warehouses in remote Databricks workspaces.