A fintech wanted to sell its merchants a live view of their own transactions. The dashboard looked like a product until traffic arrived; e6data's wager is that the expensive part of analytics is often the engine, not the data.

He started Apache Spark to fix a stubborn research problem. Seventeen years later, Matei Zaharia is still turning computing bottlenecks into open systems that other people can build on.
Databricks is a San Francisco-based data and AI company founded in 2013 by the original creators of Apache Spark. It builds the Data Intelligence Platform - a lakehouse architecture that unifies data engineering, analytics, and machine learning on open formats. Used by more than 10,000 organizations worldwide, Databricks helps enterprises store, govern, and analyze data and build AI applications on top of it, all under a single governance model.