Databricks

Databricks is a data and AI company that provides a unified platform called the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform. The platform is designed to help organizations manage, analyze, and build AI applications on top of their data.

Core platform components include:

• Lakebase: A serverless Postgres database integrated with the lakehouse architecture, designed for building production applications and AI agents.
• Lakehouse (Databricks SQL): An open data warehouse built on lakehouse architecture, combining data lake flexibility with data warehouse performance.
• Lakeflow: A data engineering product for building ETL pipelines supporting both batch and streaming data ingestion, transformation, and orchestration.
• Mosaic AI / Agent Bricks: Tools for building, evaluating, and deploying AI agents grounded in enterprise data.
• AI/BI and Genie: Business intelligence tools that incorporate natural language interfaces for querying and visualizing data.
• Unity Catalog: A unified governance layer for managing data, AI models, dashboards, and agents with compliance and access controls.

Databricks serves a broad range of industries, with customers including large enterprises across financial services, retail, manufacturing, media, and life sciences. The platform runs on major cloud providers and is used by over 20,000 customers globally, including more than 60% of the Fortune 500.

While Databricks is primarily a data and AI platform company, its Unity Catalog governance layer and data access controls address data protection and compliance use cases relevant to enterprise security teams.