Fizz.hu, a fast-growing Hungarian ecommerce marketplace, migrated from Microsoft SQL Server to Databricks SQL lakehouse architecture in just three months.
- •The migration covered ~50 tables and stored procedures using an MVP-first approach, keeping Power BI reports running while switching the underlying engine
- •Nightly ETL processing was reduced from 3-4 hours to ~90 minutes, with reports ready by 4:30 a.m. instead of 7-8 a.m.
- •Power BI refresh cycles were cut by ~50%, and gigabyte-scale exports now complete in minutes on ~10 TB total data
- •Python workloads previously on a separate VM are now unified in Databricks, eliminating separate environments
- •Databricks Genie enables 20 business users to query data in Hungarian via natural language, reclaiming ~20% of analyst time
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