Databricks

Databricks is a unified data analytics and AI platform built upon Apache Spark, designed to simplify and accelerate big data processing, machine learning, and data warehousing workloads. It offers a 'Lakehouse' architecture that combines the cost-effectiveness and flexibility of data lakes with…

Key facts

First appeared: 2013
Category: technology
Problem solved: Databricks addresses the fundamental challenge of unifying disparate data processing systems (data lakes for raw data, data warehouses for structured data, and separate tools for machine learning) into a single, collaborative platform. It aims to eliminate data silos, reduce complexity, improve data quality, and accelerate the development and deployment of data-intensive applications and machine learning models.
Platforms: Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure

Related technologies

Apache Spark
Jupyter Notebooks
Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS)
Google Cloud Storage (GCS)
PyTorch
MLflow
Scala
AWS S3
Delta Lake
R
Python
SQL
TensorFlow

Notable users

T-Mobile
AstraZeneca
Starbucks
Comcast
Shell
Condé Nast