diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 260f1657c87b4..2454074d2b92e 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -121,10 +121,11 @@ def get_git_sha():
             "pybigquery>=0.4.10",
             "google-cloud-bigquery>=2.4.0",
         ],
-        "clickhouse": ["clickhouse-sqlalchemy>= 0.1.4, <0.2"],
+        "clickhouse": ["clickhouse-sqlalchemy>=0.1.4, <0.2"],
         "cockroachdb": ["cockroachdb>=0.3.5, <0.4"],
         "cors": ["flask-cors>=2.0.0"],
         "crate": ["crate[sqlalchemy]>=0.26.0, <0.27"],
+        "databricks": ["databricks-dbapi[sqlalchemy]>=0.5.0, <0.6"],
         "db2": ["ibm-db-sa>=0.3.5, <0.4"],
         "dremio": ["sqlalchemy-dremio>=1.1.5, <1.2"],
         "drill": ["sqlalchemy-drill==0.1.dev"],
diff --git a/superset/db_engine_specs/databricks.py b/superset/db_engine_specs/databricks.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..d67370be7e331
--- /dev/null
+++ b/superset/db_engine_specs/databricks.py
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+# or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+# distributed with this work for additional information
+# regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+# to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+# "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+# with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+# software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+# "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+# KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+# specific language governing permissions and limitations
+# under the License.o
+from superset.db_engine_specs.hive import HiveEngineSpec
+
+
+class DatabricksHiveEngineSpec(HiveEngineSpec):
+    engine = "databricks"
+    engine_name = "Databricks Hive"
+    driver = "pyhive"