Databricks provides a unified Data Intelligence Platform that integrates data engineering, data science, and machine learning capabilities. The platform supports ETL pipelines, model training, and generative AI applications at scale, serving more than 15,000 organisations worldwide, including over 60% of the Fortune 500.
The company, founded in 2013 and headquartered in San Francisco, has spent a decade building on the Apache Spark foundation. Its platform architecture combines elements of data warehouses and data lakes - a configuration known as the lakehouse - to provide a single source of truth for data and analytics work. Databricks also contributes to the open source ecosystem through projects including Delta Lake, MLflow, and Unity Catalog.
The company operates globally and works across multiple industries, collaborating with partners and customers to make data and artificial intelligence accessible at enterprise scale. Engineering and research expertise underpins the platform's development, reflecting the company's founding by engineers and researchers.
