How it started
2013–2021
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, Patrick Wendell, and Reynold Xin.
Microsoft Azure integrated Databricks as Azure Databricks in 2017.
In February 2021, together with Google Cloud, Databricks provided integration with the Google Kubernetes Engine and Google's BigQuery platform. In February 2021, the company reported having more than 5,000 customers.
2022–present
Databricks announced the Data Intelligence Platform, integrating its lakehouse architecture with generative AI capabilities acquired from MosaicML.
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