Weaviate's integration with Databricks' APIs allows you to access their models' capabilities directly from Weaviate.

[Configure a Weaviate collection](#configure-collection) to use a generative AI model with Databricks. Weaviate will perform retrieval augmented generation (RAG) using the specified endpoint and your Databricks token.

More specifically, Weaviate will perform a search, retrieve the most relevant objects, and then pass them to the Databricks generative model to generate outputs.

![RAG integration illustration](/assets/docs/weaviate/model-providers/_includes/integration_databricks_rag.png)

## Requirements

### Weaviate configuration

Your Weaviate instance must be configured with the Databricks generative AI integration (`generative-databricks`) module.

:::accordion{title="For Weaviate Cloud (WCD) users"}
This integration is enabled by default on Weaviate Cloud (WCD) instances.
:::

:::accordion{title="For self-hosted users"}
- Check the [cluster metadata](../monitoring-and-logging/status.md#cluster-metadata) to verify if the module is enabled.
- Follow the [how-to configure modules](../how-to-configure-weaviate/modules.md) guide to enable the module in Weaviate.
:::

### API credentials

You must provide a valid Databricks Personal Access Token (PAT) to Weaviate for this integration. Refer to the [Databricks documentation](https://docs.databricks.com/en/dev-tools/auth/pat.html) for instructions on generating your PAT in your workspace.

Provide the Databricks token to Weaviate using one of the following methods:

- Set the `DATABRICKS_TOKEN` environment variable that is available to Weaviate.
- Provide the token at runtime, as shown in the examples below.

:::code-group{sync="languages"}
```python title="Python"
# Recommended: save sensitive data as environment variables
databricks_token = os.getenv("DATABRICKS_TOKEN")
```

```typescript title="JavaScript/TypeScript"
const databricksToken = process.env.DATABRICKS_TOKEN || '';  // Replace with your inference API key
```
:::

## Configure collection

:::callout{intent="info" title="Generative model integration mutability"}
A collection's `generative` model integration configuration is mutable from `v1.25.23`, `v1.26.8` and `v1.27.1`. See [this section](../how-to-manage-collections/generative-reranker-models.md#update-the-generative-model-integration) for details on how to update the collection configuration.
:::

[Configure a Weaviate collection](../how-to-manage-collections/generative-reranker-models.md#specify-a-generative-model-integration) to use a Databricks generative AI endpoint as follows:

:::code-group{sync="languages"}
```python title="Python" {6}
from weaviate.classes.config import Configure

databricks_generative_endpoint = os.getenv("DATABRICKS_GENERATIVE_ENDPOINT")
client.collections.create(
    "DemoCollection",
    generative_config=Configure.Generative.databricks(endpoint=databricks_generative_endpoint)
    # Additional parameters not shown
)
```

```typescript title="JavaScript/TypeScript" {5-7}
const databricksGenerativeEndpoint = process.env.DATABRICKS_VECTORIZER_ENDPOINT || '';  // If saved as an environment variable

await client.collections.create({
  name: 'DemoCollection',
  generative: weaviate.configure.generative.databricks({
    endpoint: databricksGenerativeEndpoint,  // Required for Databricks
  }),
  // Additional parameters not shown
});
```
:::

This will configure Weaviate to use the generative AI model served through the endpoint you specify.

### Generative parameters

Configure the following generative parameters to customize the model behavior.

:::code-group{sync="languages"}
```python title="Python" {6-13}
from weaviate.classes.config import Configure

databricks_generative_endpoint = os.getenv("DATABRICKS_GENERATIVE_ENDPOINT")
client.collections.create(
    "DemoCollection",
    generative_config=Configure.Generative.databricks(
        endpoint=databricks_generative_endpoint
        # # These parameters are optional
        # max_tokens=500,
        # temperature=0.7,
        # top_p=0.7,
        # top_k=0.1
    )
    # Additional parameters not shown
)
```

```typescript title="JavaScript/TypeScript"
const databricksGenerativeEndpoint = process.env.DATABRICKS_VECTORIZER_ENDPOINT || '';  // If saved as an environment variable
```
:::

For further details on model parameters, see the [Databricks documentation](https://docs.databricks.com/en/machine-learning/foundation-models/api-reference.html#chat-task).

## Select a model at runtime

Aside from setting the default model provider when creating the collection, you can also override it at query time.

:::code-group{sync="languages"}
```python title="Python" {9-16}
from weaviate.classes.config import Configure
from weaviate.classes.generate import GenerativeConfig

collection = client.collections.use("DemoCollection")
response = collection.generate.near_text(
    query="A holiday film",
    limit=2,
    grouped_task="Write a tweet promoting these two movies",
    generative_provider=GenerativeConfig.databricks(
        # # These parameters are optional
        # max_tokens=500,
        # temperature=0.7,
        # top_p=0.7,
        # top_k=0.1
    ),
    # Additional parameters not shown
)
```

```typescript title="JavaScript/TypeScript"
import { generativeParameters } from 'weaviate-client';
```
:::

## Header parameters

You can provide the token as well as some optional parameters at runtime through additional headers in the request. The following headers are available:

- `X-Databricks-Token`: The Databricks API token.
- `X-Databricks-Endpoint`: The endpoint to use for the Databricks model.
- `X-Databricks-User-Agent`: The user agent to use for the Databricks model.

Any additional headers provided at runtime will override the existing Weaviate configuration.

Provide the headers as shown in the [API credentials examples](#api-credentials) above.

## Retrieval augmented generation

After configuring the generative AI integration, perform RAG operations, either with the [single prompt](#single-prompt) or [grouped task](#grouped-task) method.

### Single prompt

![Single prompt RAG integration generates individual outputs per search result](/assets/docs/weaviate/model-providers/_includes/integration_databricks_rag_single.png)

To generate text for each object in the search results, use the single prompt method.

The example below generates outputs for each of the `n` search results, where `n` is specified by the `limit` parameter.

When creating a single prompt query, use braces `{}` to interpolate the object properties you want Weaviate to pass on to the language model. For example, to pass on the object's `title` property, include `{title}` in the query.

:::code-group{sync="languages"}
```python title="Python" {5-6}
collection = client.collections.use("DemoCollection")

response = collection.generate.near_text(
    query="A holiday film",  # The model provider integration will automatically vectorize the query
    single_prompt="Translate this into French: {title}",
    limit=2
)

for obj in response.objects:
    print(obj.properties["title"])
    print(f"Generated output: {obj.generated}")  # Note that the generated output is per object
```

```typescript title="JavaScript/TypeScript"
let response;
const myCollection = client.collections.use("DemoCollection");
```
:::

### Grouped task

![Grouped task RAG integration generates one output for the set of search results](/assets/docs/weaviate/model-providers/_includes/integration_databricks_rag_grouped.png)

To generate one text for the entire set of search results, use the grouped task method.

In other words, when you have `n` search results, the generative model generates one output for the entire group.

:::code-group{sync="languages"}
```python title="Python" {5-6}
collection = client.collections.use("DemoCollection")

response = collection.generate.near_text(
    query="A holiday film",  # The model provider integration will automatically vectorize the query
    grouped_task="Write a fun tweet to promote readers to check out these films.",
    limit=2
)

print(f"Generated output: {response.generative.text}")  # Note that the generated output is per query
for obj in response.objects:
    print(obj.properties["title"])
```

```typescript title="JavaScript/TypeScript"
let response;
const myCollection = client.collections.use("DemoCollection");
```
:::

<!-- ## References -->

## Further resources

### Other integrations

- [Databricks embedding models + Weaviate](databricks-embeddings.md).

### Code examples

Once the integrations are configured at the collection, the data management and search operations in Weaviate work identically to any other collection. See the following model-agnostic examples:

- The [How-to: Manage collections](../how-to-manage-collections/index.md) and [How-to: Manage objects](../how-to-manage-objects/index.md) guides show how to perform data operations (i.e. create, read, update, delete collections and objects within them).
- The [How-to: Query & Search](../how-to-query-search/index.md) guides show how to perform search operations (i.e. vector, keyword, hybrid) as well as retrieval augmented generation.

### References

- [Databricks foundation model documentation](https://docs.databricks.com/en/machine-learning/foundation-models/api-reference.html)

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## Related pages

- [Agents](./agents-index.md)
- [AI-assisted Weaviate code generation](./ai-assisted-vibe-coding-index.md)
- [APIs](./apis-index.md)
- [Authorization and authentication](./authorization-and-authentication-index.md)
- [Benchmarks](./benchmarks-index.md)
- [Best practices](./best-practices-index.md)
- [Client libraries](./clients-index.md)
- [Client Libraries / SDKs](./client-libraries-index.md)
- [Cloud](./cloud-index.md)
- [Cloud account management](./cloud-account-management-index.md)

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