Databricks, Inc. is a U.S.-based data and AI software company best known for the Databricks Lakehouse Platform, which unifies data engineering, analytics, and machine learning on a single environment. Founded by the creators of Apache Spark, the company is a major contributor to open-source projects including Apache Spark, Delta Lake, and MLflow. Its platform provides capabilities for large-scale data processing, feature engineering, model training, and governance.
For the chemical industry, Databricks is used to integrate data from labs, plants, and enterprise systems; accelerate R&D and formulation analytics; develop predictive models for process optimization, quality, and yield; improve demand and supply planning; and support sustainability and regulatory reporting. The software is available on major public clouds such as Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud.
