Hi Kamalds, While using Databricks is not necessary and will not impact how your project is reviewed, If you’d like to use Databricks and don’t already have an account, you may create a Databricks Community Edition account to get started. If you need more resources, you may also set up a full-platform Databricks account with the free 14-day trial in the last two weeks of the competition. 

Additional resources from the public cloud partners:

https://cloud.google.com/free

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/free/

https://aws.amazon.com/free