Databricks Launches Public Preview of Zerobus Ingest to Streamline Event Data Ingestion
Zerobus Ingest is designed to simplify infrastructure and accelerate insights by eliminating intermediary systems like Kafka.
Databricks today announced the public preview of Zerobus Ingest, a managed service that streams event-level data directly into the lakehouse architecture without the need for a separate message bus layer.
Zerobus Ingest, part of Databricks’ Lakeflow Connect suite, is designed to simplify infrastructure and accelerate insights by eliminating intermediary systems like Kafka.
According to Databricks, the platform supports latencies as low as five seconds and can handle throughputs of up to 100 MB per second per connection while accommodating thousands of concurrent writers.
“The architecture delivers performance at scale and simplifies operations,” said Dominik Müller, Factory Systems Lead at Joby Aviation. “With Zerobus Ingest, we’re pushing gigabytes of telemetry per minute into our lakehouse without redesigning our systems.”
The service sees applications across industries including manufacturing, telecommunications, e-commerce and cybersecurity. For example, in telecom, it enables real-time streaming of device signals from global networks; in manufacturing, it supports high-volume sensor data flow for machine analytics and predictive maintenance.
Zerobus integrates natively with the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform — writing directly to Delta tables, aligning with Unity Catalog for governance, and connecting smoothly with downstream analytics and AI workflows. SDKs are available for Python, Java and Rust, and standard APIs such as OpenTelemetry and REST are supported for custom integrations.
“Our customers can now push high-fidelity data from devices around the world to the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform using our cellular, satellite, and LPWAN services and accelerate time to insights for game-changing results,” Kenta Yasukawa, CTO and Co-founder, Soracom, Inc.
Organisations interested in joining the preview can contact their Databricks account representative to enable Zerobus Ingest in their workspace. With this launch, Databricks signals its commitment to reshaping data engineering by moving beyond traditional message-bus architectures and delivering real-time, scalable ingestion built for modern AI and analytics workflows.
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