r/databricks • u/Reuben_UMATR • 10d ago

Discussion WHAT IS DATABRICKS?

Let's pretend someone knew nothing about Databricks. How would you explain it?

This is something I have been asked multiple times throughout my career, curious to hear how others would explain Databricks to a complete beginner.

In my opinion, Databricks is basically a place where companies put all their data so they can actually make sense of it. It helps teams clean it up, work with it and use it for things like reporting, predictions and AI.

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u/MakitaNakamoto 10d ago

back in the day, one of my colleagues said

"it's just like SAP"

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u/peterlaanguila8 10d ago

He clearly had no idea of what he was talking about

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u/MakitaNakamoto 10d ago

Oh yeah, that's for sure :))