Databricks

About Databricks

Financials

Dated, source-cited figures. Estimates are marked.

Products by Databricks

All products by Databricks reviewed by our AI panel of experts.

DatabricksAI Analytics

Unified analytics platform for data engineering, machine learning, and analytics

Free8.4/10

Competitive Landscape

Who Databricks competes with, and how they differ.

Snowflake Inc.8.3/10

Snowflake attacks the same enterprise data estate from the warehouse side: a consumption-priced, SQL-first cloud data platform now adding AI via Cortex, versus Databricks' Spark-rooted engineering and ML lakehouse. Public since 2020 (NYSE: SNOW), it is the most direct rival as the two categories converge.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed

Microsoft7.8/10

Microsoft Fabric bundles data warehousing, data engineering and Power BI into one Azure SaaS suite priced per capacity unit, competing for the same analytics workloads even as Microsoft simultaneously distributes Azure Databricks as a first-party service.

9 products reviewed on TopReviewed

Google Cloud7.9/10

Google competes through BigQuery's serverless warehouse and Vertex AI, sold as part of GCP with consumption pricing; strongest with organizations already standardized on Google infrastructure rather than as a cross-cloud platform.

2 products reviewed on TopReviewed

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Amazon Web Services

AWS covers the same ground with a portfolio of point services — Redshift for warehousing, EMR for Spark, Glue for ETL and SageMaker for ML — sold individually inside AWS rather than as a unified, multi-cloud lakehouse.

Cloudera7.1/10

Cloudera sells the prior generation of the same stack — Hadoop/Spark-era data platforms — with a hybrid and on-premises focus, retaining regulated enterprises that cannot move fully to cloud; it went private in 2021 at a fraction of Databricks' valuation.

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Company Timeline

Key milestones in Databricks's history, with sources.

1. Dec 16, 2025Funding

   Series L — $4B at $134B valuation

   Insight Partners, Fidelity and J.P. Morgan Asset Management led the round at a $134 billion valuation, up from $100B+ three months earlier, with run-rate revenue above $4.8 billion.

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2. Sep 8, 2025Funding

   Series K — $1B at over $100B valuation

   Co-led by Andreessen Horowitz, Insight Partners, MGX, Thrive Capital and WCM Investment Management, valuing Databricks above $100 billion as it surpassed a $4B revenue run-rate with more than $1B from AI products.

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3. May 14, 2025Acquisition

   Acquires serverless Postgres startup Neon for ~$1B

   Databricks agreed to buy Neon, an open-source serverless Postgres company, for about $1 billion. Neon reported that over 80% of databases on its platform were being provisioned by AI agents rather than humans.

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4. Dec 17, 2024Funding

   Series J — $10B at $62B valuation

   Thrive Capital led the largest round in company history, co-led by Andreessen Horowitz, DST Global, GIC, Insight Partners and WCM, with $8.6B of the expected $10B completed at announcement. Databricks said it expected a $3B revenue run-rate in the quarter ending January 31, 2025.

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5. Jun 13, 2024Launch

   Open-sources Unity Catalog

   Unity Catalog, Databricks' governance catalog for data and AI, was open-sourced under Apache 2.0 at the Linux Foundation's LF AI & Data, with backing from AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, Nvidia and Salesforce.

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6. Jun 7, 2024Acquisition

   Completes acquisition of Tabular

   Databricks acquired Tabular, the data-management company founded by Apache Iceberg creators Ryan Blue, Daniel Weeks and Jason Reid, bringing the originators of the two leading open lakehouse formats — Iceberg and Delta Lake — under one roof. Terms were not disclosed.

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7. Mar 27, 2024Launch

   Releases DBRX open-weight LLM

   DBRX, a 132B-parameter mixture-of-experts model with 36B active parameters trained on 12 trillion tokens, was released with open weights on Hugging Face; Databricks reported it surpassing GPT-3.5 on its benchmarks.

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8. Jun 26, 2023Acquisition

   Acquires MosaicML for $1.3B

   Databricks announced the $1.3 billion acquisition of MosaicML, the generative-AI training startup behind the widely downloaded MPT open models, to build LLM training and customization into its platform.

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9. Aug 31, 2021Funding

   Series H — $1.6B at $38B valuation

   Counterpoint Global (Morgan Stanley) led the round as Databricks passed $600 million in annual recurring revenue, up 75% year over year.

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10. Apr 24, 2019Launch

    Open-sources Delta Lake

    Databricks open-sourced Delta Lake under the Apache 2.0 license at delta.io, bringing ACID transactions and reliability features to data lakes on HDFS and cloud storage.

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11. Jun 5, 2018Launch

    Launches MLflow

    Databricks released MLflow in alpha, an open-source machine learning platform with components for experiment tracking, reproducible project runs and model packaging.

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12. 2013Founded

    Founded by the creators of Apache Spark

    Ali Ghodsi, Matei Zaharia, Ion Stoica, Reynold Xin, Patrick Wendell, Andy Konwinski and Arsalan Tavakoli founded Databricks in San Francisco to commercialize Apache Spark, which the team had created at UC Berkeley's AMPLab. Andreessen Horowitz led a $13.9M Series A that September.

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