Databricks is an enterprise software company that provides data science tools for processing and transforming huge volumes of data to build machine learning models. Its platform built on top of distributed Cloud computing environments like Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud Interactive that enables Data Engineers, Data Scientists, and Analysts to collaborate and work closely on data science notebooks, models, libraries, and building machine learning pipelines at scale.
The core platform is the Databricks' Lakehouse which is based on the open-source Apache Spark framework that allows analytical queries to be processed on semi-structured data. They also support open-source versions for Delta lake, ML Flow and have built-in security governance with Unity catalog for implementing large data projects.
Founding date
Jan 01 2013
Headquarter
San Francisco, CA
Total funding amount
$3.5B
Series
Series H
Employees
4,900