Nasdaq: Accelerating Market Data Insights with Databricks and dbt

The Challenge:
Nasdaq aimed to enhance its market data offerings, particularly in the rapidly evolving digital assets space. The challenge was to provide clients with timely, comprehensive, and easily accessible data to inform their investment decisions.

The Solution:
By leveraging Databricks' Lakehouse for Financial Services, Delta Sharing for secure data distribution, and dbt for scalable data transformation and modeling, Nasdaq built a high-performance pipeline to deliver enriched digital asset market data. This modern stack enabled faster analytics, standardized transformations, and self-service access to high-quality insights.

The Impact:
Reduced data processing times from months to minutes, enhancing agility
Provided clients with real-time access to comprehensive crypto market data, including trades, quotes, and order books
Enabled advanced analytics and AI applications, improving market understanding and decision-making
Streamlined data sharing and transformation, fostering collaboration and data integrity

The Stack: Databricks Lakehouse, Delta Sharing, dbt