Building live intelligence: Databricks AI Search supports Streaming Tables, Materialized Views, and Managed tables using Iceberg

Databricks AI Search now natively supports Streaming Tables, Materialized Views, and Managed tables using Iceberg v3+ in addition to Delta tables, letting users index live events, continuously maintained personalized state, and open-format data directly without separate conversion and synchronization pipelines. Streaming Tables keep indexes fresh as new records arrive, Materialized Views propagate incrementally maintained aggregated or joined state for personalized search, and Managed Iceberg tables serve as sources without conversion or migration. Index creation follows the same Delta Sync index workflow via UI or API, eliminating the intermediate Delta table and custom sync pipeline.