Founded in 2013 by the original creators of the Lakehouse architecture and open-source projects such as Apache Spark, Databricks' mission is to "accelerate the development of data science and machine learning." Used by more than 10,000 organizations worldwide (over 60% of Fortune 500 companies), the company offers a cloud-based data platform that simplifies using Apache Spark for data engineering, data science, and machine learning. (https://www.databricks.com/)
Regional Services Partners Distribution
After cleaning the data for duplicates and merged companies, we ended up with 738 worldwide Databricks services partners (consulting, implementation, managed services, etc). The following table outlines the geographical distribution of these partners:
North America hosts the largest number of consulting partners, with 306 partners (41%), with Europe coming in second.
Services Partners Size Distribution
The partner network includes diverse company sizes. The distribution of partners by size is presented below:
Almost half of Databricks consulting and services partners are niche data services firms which have fewer than 100 employees, showing an important fragmentation in the space. It is estimated there are over 100,000 certified Databricks and Apache Spark professionals worldwide.
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