Databricks, Inc. is a global data, analytics, and artificial intelligence (AI) company, founded in 2013 by the original creators of Apache Spark.

[7] Databricks grew out of the AMPLab project at University of California, Berkeley that was involved in making Apache Spark, an open-source distributed computing framework built atop Scala.

The company was founded by Ali Ghodsi, Andy Konwinski, Arsalan Tavakoli-Shiraji, Ion Stoica, Matei Zaharia,[8] Patrick Wendell, and Reynold Xin.

[14] In June 2020, Databricks bought Redash, an open-source tool for data visualization and building of interactive dashboards.

[20] In what is believed to be its sixth acquisition, Databricks bought Tabular, a data-management system used by open source AI, for over $1 billion.

[25] In September 2013, Databricks announced it raised $13.9 million from Andreessen Horowitz and said it aimed to offer an alternative to Google's MapReduce system.

Other investors include Amazon Web Services, CapitalG (a growth equity firm under Alphabet Inc.) and Salesforce Ventures.

[40] Databricks' Lakehouse is based on the open-source Apache Spark framework that allows analytical queries against semi-structured data without a traditional database schema.

Analysts can query data sets with standard SQL or use connectors to integrate with business intelligence tools like Holistics,[47] Tableau, Qlik, SigmaComputing,[48] Looker, and ThoughtSpot.

[49] Databricks offers a platform for other workloads, including machine learning, data storage and processing, streaming analytics, and business intelligence.