Databricks, Inc.
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A Databricks, Inc. is an American technology componay specializing in data processing platforms.
- Context:
- It can produce Databricks Platforms, with components such as Databricks Runtime, Databricks Workspace, Databricks MLflow, ...
- Example(s):
- Databricks, 2014.
- Databricks, 2015.
- Databricks, 2016.
- Databricks, 2017.
- Databricks, 2018.
- Databricks, 2019, with ~750 employees.
- Databricks, 2020, with ~1500 employees.
- Databricks, 2021, with ~2000 employees.
- …
- Counter-Example(s):
- See: Delta Lake, MLflow, Apache Spark.
References
2020
- (Wikipedia, 2020) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/databricks Retrieved:2020-3-16.
- Databricks is a company founded by the original creators of Apache Spark. 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. Databricks develops a web-based platform for working with Spark, that provides automated cluster management and IPython-style notebooks. In addition to building the Databricks platform, the company is co-organizing massive open online courses about Spark and runs the largest conference about Spark - Spark Summit.
2020b
- https://linkedin.com/company/databricks/about/
- QUOTE: As the leader in Unified Data Analytics, Databricks helps organizations make all their data ready for analytics, empower data science and data-driven decisions across the organization, and rapidly adopt machine learning to outpace the competition. By providing data teams with the ability to process massive amounts of data in the Cloud and power AI with that data, Databricks helps organizations innovate faster and tackle challenges like treating chronic disease through faster drug discovery, improving energy efficiency, and protecting financial markets.
Databricks was founded in 2013 and has thousands of global customers including Comcast, Shell, HP, Expedia, and Regeneron. The company also has hundreds of global partners that include Microsoft, Amazon, Tableau, Informatica, Cap Gemini and Booz Allen Hamilton. Databricks is founded by the original creators of popular open source projects, including Apache Spark, Delta Lake, MLflow and Koalas.
- QUOTE: As the leader in Unified Data Analytics, Databricks helps organizations make all their data ready for analytics, empower data science and data-driven decisions across the organization, and rapidly adopt machine learning to outpace the competition. By providing data teams with the ability to process massive amounts of data in the Cloud and power AI with that data, Databricks helps organizations innovate faster and tackle challenges like treating chronic disease through faster drug discovery, improving energy efficiency, and protecting financial markets.