Implementing Medallion Architecture using Databricks
4 Scenarios
1 Hour 45 Minutes
Beginner

Free
3 credits
Industry
e-commerce
general
Skills
data-quality
batch-etl
data-understanding
data-wrangling
Tools
databricks
spark
Learning Objectives
Understand the purpose and workflow of Bronze, Silver, and Gold layers
Perform data ingestion, quality checks, and transformations using PySpark.
Build Delta tables and apply constraints for data consistency.
Create aggregated business metrics optimized for analytics.
Overview
This hands-on project guides you through building a complete Medallion Architecture (Bronze–Silver–Gold) pipeline in Databricks Community Edition using a real-world e-commerce scenario from GlobalMart.
You'll implement all three layers of the medallion architecture:
- Bronze Layer: Ingest raw customer, order, and transaction data exactly as received from source systems
- Silver Layer: Apply data quality checks including duplicate detection, missing value handling, email validation, and referential integrity constraints
- Gold Layer: Create aggregated business metrics like customer order counts and total spending for analytics-ready insights
What makes this different:
- Complete end-to-end implementation from raw ingestion to business metrics
- Practical data quality validation techniques including constraint enforcement
- Real-world e-commerce datasets with actual data quality issues to resolve
- Step-by-step guidance with code examples and validation checkpoints
By the end of this project, you'll have a working medallion architecture pipeline demonstrating standardized data processing, quality assurance, and business-ready analytics.
Prerequisites
- Basic knowledge of PySpark and SQL in Databricks
- Access to Databricks Free Edition