What does Databricks do?

The $55B private company nobody understands

The TL;DR

Databricks sells a data science and analytics platform – i.e. a place to query and share data – built on top of an open source package called Apache Spark. 

• Apache Spark is an open source engine for running analytics and machine learning across distributed, giant datasets

• Spark is notoriously hard to run on your own infrastructure and companies o…