Databricks

Top Executive: CEO Ali Ghodsi

Databricks was founded in 2013 by the creators of Apache Spark, the popular open-source big data processing engine. The San Francisco-based company develops commercial software and services around Spark, including the Databricks Cloud end-to-end hosted data platform that launched in June 2015.

In April Databricks debuted Databricks for Data Engineering, an edition of the Databricks cloud software that data engineers use to combine SQL, ETL, structured data streaming and machine learning workloads running on Spark and move them into production.