Feature Serving

Feature Serving is the current Databricks name, previously Feature & Function Serving (since March 2024).

Feature & Function Serving → Feature Serving

Serverless REST endpoints that make feature data in the Databricks platform available to models and applications deployed outside of Databricks, serving both pre-materialized features and on-demand features computed by Unity Catalog functions.

• The docs URL never got the memo - the page is titled Feature Serving endpoints but still lives at a path ending in feature-function-serving. 🔗
• It can serve features that do not exist yet: a FeatureSpec mixes pre-materialized and on-demand features, and the on-demand ones are computed at request time by Unity Catalog Python functions. 🔗
• A FeatureSpec is a Unity Catalog object in its own right - stored in and managed by Unity Catalog, and it shows up in Catalog Explorer next to your tables. 🔗

Category

AI / ML

In use from

March 2024🔗

Also known as

Feature Serving endpoints, feature serving endpoint, FeatureSpec

Verified

2026-09-11