Launched in 2013 , Databricks is a company founded by the creators of Apache Spark that aims to help clients with cloud-based big data processing . Databricks provides a Unified Analytics Platform for data science teams to collaborate with data engineering and lines of business to build data products . Databricks ’ mission is to accelerate innovation for its customers by unifying data science , engineering and business . It has 200 employees and its funding sits at $ 108mn .

With more than more than 500 customers in 50 countries , including Netflix , eBay and Adobe , Datastax is a data management software vendor based in Santa Clara , California , offering data management software . The company ’ s two founders , Jonathan Ellis and Matt Pfeil , left Rackspace and launched Datastax in 2010 . They currently lead 450 employees , with $ 190mn backing . Investors include Comcast Ventures and Crosslink Capital . 59