Founders: Ali Ghodsi (CEO), Matei Zaharia, Reynold Xin, Ion Stoica, Patrick Wendell, Andy Konwinski, Arsalan Tavakoli-Shiraji Launched: 2013 Headquarters: San Francisco Funding: $19 billion Valuation: ...

For those of you just tuning in, Spark, an open source cluster computing framework, was originally developed by Matei Zaharia at U.C. Berkeley’s AMPLab in 2009, and later open-sourced and donated to ...

Until now, access to the Databricks platform was primarily limited to engineers and data scientists with SQL or Python skills. Databricks One introduces a completely redesigned interface, simplified ...

Three main pressure points are transforming the modern data landscape: 1) Increased interest in adopting open table formats to allow any compute to operate on any data; 2) The point of control is ...

Since its launch in 2013, Databricks has relied on its ecosystem of partners, such as Fivetran, Rudderstack, and dbt, to provide tools for data preparation and loading. But now, at its annual Data + ...

Databricks recently reached a valuation exceeding $100 billion following its latest funding round, joining the elite group of most-valuable private companies like SpaceX, ByteDance and OpenAI.

Databricks has added a new agent, the Data Science Agent, to the Databricks Assistant, in an effort to help data practitioners automate analytics tasks. The agent, which is available now in preview ...