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Data confidence: High

Data 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

DMI: 16#68 of 262 (Top 26%)HN 30d: 30
527 · 190 forks
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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.

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Developer Adoption

Package downloads and ecosystem metrics, 30-day window

PyPI Downloads (30d)
86.8M
databricks-sdk
Active Contributors (30d)
12
Unique committers, 30-day window

Active Contributors Trend

1112121213Mar 5Mar 6
90-day trend

github contributors remained stable at 12 over the last 90 days.

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Dategithub contributors
Mar 5, 202612
Mar 6, 202612

PyPI Download Trend

82,007,63984,177,52886,347,41888,517,30790,687,196Mar 5Mar 6
90-day trend↑ +1.0%

PyPI Downloads grew from 85,899,267 to 86,795,568 (+1.0%) over the last 90 days.

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Datepypi downloads
Mar 5, 202685,899,267
Mar 6, 202686,795,568
Key Signals

Developer Community Metrics

Metrics computed from HN discussion, GitHub activity, and funding data.

HN Discussion Rank#12 in AI Infrastructure by HN mentions (out of 75 tracked)
HN vs Category15.0x category median (30 vs 2 median)
GitHub VelocityCommit velocity declining (0.7x vs 4-week average)
Funding Trajectory9 rounds in 120 months, ($14M → $33M → $60M → $140M → $250M → $400M → $1.0B → $1.6B → $500M)
Community Sentiment0% positive HN sentiment (30 comments) • High confidence

Category Benchmark

75 AI Infrastructure companies
86.8M downloads/mo6806% above median
0Median: 1.3M2.5M+

Funding Rounds

Strategic Investment$500M

2023 · Nvidia, T. Rowe Price

Venture$1.6B

2021 · Counterpoint Global

Series G$1.0B

2021 · Franklin Templeton

Show 6 earlier rounds
Series F$400M

2019 · Andreessen Horowitz

Series E$250M

2019 · Andreessen Horowitz

Series D$140M

2017 · Andreessen Horowitz

Series C$60M

2016 · SineWave Ventures

Series B$33M

2014 · New Enterprise Associates

Series A$14M

2013 · Andreessen Horowitz

Cite This Data

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).

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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

Details

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

Excellent
89/ 100

Reflects profile completeness, metric freshness, and signal coverage.

How we calculate this

Open Source

527
Stars
190
Forks
ActivePython
Last commit: 1 day ago
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