Databricks
Data confidence: HighData and AI platform, creator of MLflow and Dolly
Founded by: Ali Ghodsi, Ion Stoica, Matei Zaharia, Patrick Wendell, Arsalan Tavakoli-Shiraji, Reynold Xin, Andy Konwinski
Databricks has a Developer Momentum Index of 16, ranking #68 of 262 companies. Key metrics include 86.8M monthly package downloads, 527 GitHub stars, $4.0B in total funding.
Developer Adoption
Developer Adoption
Package downloads and ecosystem metrics, 30-day window
Active Contributors Trend
github contributors remained stable at 12 over the last 90 days.
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| Date | github contributors |
|---|---|
| Mar 5, 2026 | 12 |
| Mar 6, 2026 | 12 |
PyPI Download Trend
PyPI Downloads grew from 85,899,267 to 86,795,568 (+1.0%) over the last 90 days.
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| Date | pypi downloads |
|---|---|
| Mar 5, 2026 | 85,899,267 |
| Mar 6, 2026 | 86,795,568 |
Key Signals
Developer Community Metrics
Metrics computed from HN discussion, GitHub activity, and funding data.
Category Benchmark
75 AI Infrastructure companies30-Day Trends
PyPI Downloads
PyPI Downloads grew from 85,899,267 to 86,795,568 (+1.0%) over the last 90 days.
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| Date | pypi downloads |
|---|---|
| Mar 5, 2026 | 85,899,267 |
| Mar 6, 2026 | 86,795,568 |
GitHub Stars
GitHub Stars grew from 526 to 527 over the last 90 days.
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| Date | github stars |
|---|---|
| Feb 21, 2026 | 526 |
| Feb 22, 2026 | 526 |
| Feb 23, 2026 | 526 |
| Feb 24, 2026 | 526 |
| Feb 25, 2026 | 526 |
| Feb 26, 2026 | 526 |
| Feb 27, 2026 | 527 |
| Feb 28, 2026 | 527 |
HN Mentions
HN Mentions declined from 45 to 34 (-24.4%) over the last 90 days.
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| Date | hn mentions |
|---|---|
| Jan 6, 2026 | 45 |
| Jan 27, 2026 | 25 |
| Jan 29, 2026 | 26 |
| Jan 30, 2026 | 26 |
| Jan 31, 2026 | 25 |
| Feb 1, 2026 | 28 |
| Feb 2, 2026 | 30 |
| Feb 3, 2026 | 32 |
| Feb 4, 2026 | 30 |
| Feb 5, 2026 | 34 |
Funding Rounds
2023 · Nvidia, T. Rowe Price
2021 · Counterpoint Global
2021 · Franklin Templeton
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2019 · Andreessen Horowitz
2019 · Andreessen Horowitz
2017 · Andreessen Horowitz
2016 · SineWave Ventures
2014 · New Enterprise Associates
2013 · Andreessen Horowitz
According to AI-Buzz, Databricks has 86,795,568 PyPI downloads in 30 days, with 12 active contributors in 30 days, ranks #12 in AI Infrastructure for HN discussion share (out of 75 tracked with 1.8% of HN discussion), with 0% positive developer sentiment (30 HN comments analyzed), with 8 commits/week (declining).
Source: https://www.ai-buzz.com/companies/databricks?utm_source=citation&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=cite_this_data
Metrics derived from public APIs (HN Algolia, GitHub, npm/PyPI). Sentiment classified by AI. See methodology for details →
About
About
Description
Data and AI platform, creator of MLflow and Dolly
Estimated Company Size
5000 - 10000 employees
Website
databricks.comDetails
Founded
2013
Description
Databricks provides a unified Lakehouse Platform that combines data warehousing and data lake capabilities, enabling organizations to manage and process all their data for analytics and AI workloads. They are significant in the AI ecosystem for their contributions to open-source technologies like Apache Spark, Delta Lake, and MLflow, and for developing foundation models like Dolly.
Data Confidence
ExcellentReflects profile completeness, metric freshness, and signal coverage.
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