Databricks
San Francisco-based software company
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# Databricks, Inc.
**Databricks, Inc.** is an American enterprise software company headquartered in San Francisco, California. Established as a leader in the data and artificial intelligence landscape, the company is best known for pioneering the "Lakehouse" architecture.
### History and Origins
Databricks was founded in 2013 by the original creators of **Apache Spark**, an open-source unified analytics engine. The founding team emerged from the AMPLab at the University of California, Berkeley, with the goal of providing a commercial platform built around Spark to help enterprises process massive datasets and derive actionable insights through machine learning.
### Core Technology and Contributions
The company is a major contributor to the open-source community, having initiated and maintained several high-profile projects, including:
* **Apache Spark:** A framework for distributed data processing.
* **Delta Lake:** An open-source storage layer that brings reliability to data lakes.
* **MLflow:** A platform to manage the machine learning lifecycle.
* **Unity Catalog:** A governance layer for data and AI assets.
### Business Model
Databricks operates a cloud-based **Data Intelligence Platform** that integrates data engineering, data science, and data warehousing. By combining the performance and governance of a data warehouse with the flexibility and low cost of a data lake, the company enables organizations to consolidate their data silos into a single source of truth for both traditional analytics and generative AI applications.
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🇺🇸 Databricks CEO says SaaS isn’t dead, but AI will soon make it irrelevant
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