MiniLake Is a Local Databricks API Emulator with SQL, Delta Lake and Spark
Comments
Ranked by a public rubric, not by votes: what a comment adds counts, not who wrote it. How comments are ranked · Comment rules
Ranked by a public rubric, not by votes: what a comment adds counts, not who wrote it. How comments are ranked · Comment rules
Summary
MiniLake is a free, MIT-licensed open-source local emulator of the Databricks REST API, runnable via pip or Docker on port 8000. It executes SQL on DuckDB, writes real Delta Lake files, and runs Spark jobs in containers, so existing clients such as databricks-sdk, the CLI, Terraform and an MCP-based LLM…