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Data and AI platform, creator of MLflow and Dolly

AI InfrastructureFounded 2013#11 of 54 in AI Infrastructure

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Metric
-88.6%GitHub commits
Measured values
4 vs 35Jul 12 vs Jun 12
Sources
4 sourcesGitHub API + Hacker News Algolia API +2 more · as of July 13, 2026
Cited source
The Next Web‘Fight fire with fire’: Databricks is buying Panther Labs to challenge Splunk and CrowdStrike with AI · Jun 19

According to The Next Web, "‘Fight fire with fire’: Databricks is buying Panther Labs to challenge Splunk and CrowdStrike with AI"; separately, Databricks' GitHub commits decreased 88.6% over the last 30 days, with GitHub data through Jul 12.

What this does not prove: Does not show adoption, revenue, market share, company-wide engineering output, product progress, model progress, private usage, private repositories, or non-default branches.

Metric receipt (4 sources)

Measured public metrics

  • GitHub API: Databricks GitHub commits · July 12, 2026
  • Hacker News Algolia API: Databricks Hacker News mentions · July 12, 2026
  • Libraries.io API: Databricks PyPI dependents · July 12, 2026

Cited source

  • The Next Web: ‘Fight fire with fire’: Databricks is buying Panther Labs to challenge Splunk and CrowdStrike with AI · June 19, 2026
Metric
GitHub commits
Observed window
Last 30 days (2026-06-12 to 2026-07-12)
Comparison
Compared with the prior reading
Start value
35 on 2026-06-12
End value
4 on 2026-07-12
Calculation
((4 - 35) / 35) * 100 = -88.6%
Metric receipt
Retained AI-Buzz metric receipt; not externally reproducible from a single public URL.
Relationship
Cited sources provide context and do not prove they caused the measured metric change.

Additional measured changes

  1. Hacker News mentions increased 68.2% over the last 30 days.

  2. PyPI dependents increased 34.2% over the last 90 days.

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Company profile

What is Databricks?

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.

Latest company data

Metric dates vary by source

Metric dates
PyPI downloads
PyPI dependents
GitHub stars
Hacker News mentions

Key metric

Package downloads (30d)

126.0M/30d

Tracked package: PyPI databricks-sdk

▲ +1%

Additional metrics

3 metrics

Metric

Dependent projects

322

Projects depending on tracked package: PyPI databricks-sdk

Metric

GitHub stars

556

Main repository stars

Metric

Hacker News

74/30d

Position #8 in category discussion

Repository health

Maintenance data from the main open-source repository.

Key-person risk
2
External contributors
46
% of recent contributors outside the core team
Releases (30d)
0

Repository usage

Public repositories and source files importing packages tied to Databricks.

Repos importing
930%

Hiring mentions

Mentions of Databricks in recent Hacker News "Who's Hiring" threads.

Hiring mentions (monthly)
3

About Databricks

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.

FoundersAli Ghodsi, Ion Stoica, Matei Zaharia, Patrick Wendell, Arsalan Tavakoli-Shiraji, Reynold Xin, Andy Konwinski

Disclosed funding

Disclosed $20.0B · 12 rounds

Disclosed funding records total $20.0B. Category position #11 of 54 in AI Infrastructure.

Venture2026
$5.0B
Venture2025
$1.0B
Venture2024
$10.0B
Strategic Investment2023

Nvidia, T. Rowe Price

$500M
Venture2021

Counterpoint Global

$1.6B
Series G2021

Franklin Templeton

$1.0B
Series F2019

Andreessen Horowitz

$400M
Series E2019

Andreessen Horowitz

$250M
Series D2017

Andreessen Horowitz

$140M
Series C2016

SineWave Ventures

$60M
Series B2014

New Enterprise Associates

$33M
Series A2013

Andreessen Horowitz

$14M

Investors

Andreessen HorowitzCounterpoint GlobalFranklin TempletonNew Enterprise AssociatesNvidiaSineWave VenturesT. Rowe Price

Tracked packages (1)

1 PyPI

databricks-sdk

PyPIMain PyPI package

databricks-sdk

Data and AI platform, creator of MLflow and Dolly