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DATABRICKS DATA WAREHOUSE SALES DOUBLE TO $1.5B

INDUSTRY DESK1 MIN READ
TUE, JUN 16, 2026

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Databricks' data warehousing product has more than doubled in annual run rate to $1.5 billion, intensifying competition with Snowflake and Google Cloud.

Databricks Inc., the privately held software company, announced its data warehousing business reached a $1.5 billion annual run rate, signaling rapid growth in the competitive cloud data platform market. The revenue milestone represents a doubling of the product's sales over the past year. Databricks competes directly with Snowflake Inc., the public data cloud company, as well as Alphabet Inc.'s Google Cloud division. The data warehousing sector has become increasingly crowded as enterprises migrate workloads to the cloud and demand tools to store, process, and analyze large datasets. Databricks' growth reflects broader market momentum in this category. Databricks, which remains private, has built its platform around Apache Spark and Delta Lake technologies. The company raised $1.6 billion in funding in 2021 at a $43 billion valuation, though the broader private market has cooled since then. Snowflake went public in 2020 and currently trades as a public company, providing a comparison point for Databricks' trajectory. Google Cloud has also invested heavily in data warehousing capabilities as part of its cloud infrastructure offerings. The announcement underscores the competitive pressure in the data platform space, where vendors battle for market share among enterprises looking to consolidate their data infrastructure. Databricks' sales acceleration suggests the company is gaining traction with customers evaluating alternatives to established players.

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