Amazon Rekognition vs. Azure Databricks

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Amazon Rekognition
Score 9.9 out of 10
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Amazon offers Rekognition, an image and video visual analytics tool that is trained on locating and identifying labeled or tag-related objects, events, people, and also inappropriate content in images and video so that images and video can more safely and reliably be integrated and positioned in web applications or presentations after it conducts its analysis.N/A
Azure Databricks
Score 8.6 out of 10
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Azure Databricks is a service available on Microsoft's Azure platform and suite of products. It provides the latest versions of Apache Spark so users can integrate with open source libraries, or spin up clusters and build in a fully managed Apache Spark environment with the global scale and availability of Azure. Clusters are set up, configured, and fine-tuned to ensure reliability and performance without the need for monitoring. The solution includes autoscaling and auto-termination to improve…N/A
Pricing
Amazon RekognitionAzure Databricks
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
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Amazon Rekognition
Chose Amazon Rekognition
Accuracy and usability of amazon Rekognition are great. It provides many functionalities its competitors do not. Also, the Amazon service is great in general.
Azure Databricks
Chose Azure Databricks
When compared with Snowflake, Azure Databricks have an edge over the integration with ML Flow. ETL in Azure Databricks allows high processing of data compared to Snowflake. Data sharing is better with Snowflake. When compared with Datasphere, integration of Databricks with …
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I have found Azure Databricks to be much better than Snowflake for handling bigger, diverse data types. Snowflake is much simpler and better for smaller warehousing. The real time processing is much better in Azure Databricks and we have much more language options. Snowflake is …
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Against all the tools I have used, Azure Databricks is by far the most superior of them all! Why, you ask? The UI is modern, the features are never ending and they keep adding new features. And to quote Apple, "It just works!"
Far ahead of the competition, the delta lakehouse …
Features
Amazon RekognitionAzure Databricks
Platform Connectivity
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Amazon Rekognition
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Ratings
Azure Databricks
7.2
Ratings
15% below category average
Connect to Multiple Data Sources00 Ratings6.00 Ratings
Extend Existing Data Sources00 Ratings7.70 Ratings
Automatic Data Format Detection00 Ratings7.20 Ratings
MDM Integration00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Data Exploration
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Amazon Rekognition
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Azure Databricks
6.9
Ratings
20% below category average
Visualization00 Ratings6.00 Ratings
Interactive Data Analysis00 Ratings7.80 Ratings
Data Preparation
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Amazon Rekognition
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Ratings
Azure Databricks
8.7
Ratings
6% above category average
Interactive Data Cleaning and Enrichment00 Ratings8.30 Ratings
Data Transformations00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Data Encryption00 Ratings9.50 Ratings
Built-in Processors00 Ratings7.90 Ratings
Platform Data Modeling
Comparison of Platform Data Modeling features of Product A and Product B
Amazon Rekognition
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Azure Databricks
7.9
Ratings
6% below category average
Multiple Model Development Languages and Tools00 Ratings6.20 Ratings
Automated Machine Learning00 Ratings8.50 Ratings
Single platform for multiple model development00 Ratings8.50 Ratings
Self-Service Model Delivery00 Ratings8.50 Ratings
Model Deployment
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Amazon Rekognition
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Azure Databricks
8.3
Ratings
3% below category average
Flexible Model Publishing Options00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Security, Governance, and Cost Controls00 Ratings8.60 Ratings
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User Ratings
Amazon RekognitionAzure Databricks
Likelihood to Recommend
9.5
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7.8
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Usability
9.5
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7.5
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Support Rating
9.5
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User Testimonials
Amazon RekognitionAzure Databricks
Likelihood to Recommend
It is very well suited for image processing and recognition based applications and can be easily used using API calls without actually. writing any code for image processing. It can be used with any professional software development as it is built with so much precision. I would not suggest it for a sole feature-based application like image tagging only because for that you can create your own algorithm specific to a domain you want.
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Suppose you have multiple data sources and you want to bring the data into one place, transform it and make it into a data model. Azure Databricks is a perfectly suited solution for this. Leverage spark JDBC or any external cloud based tool (ADG, AWS Glue) to bring the data into a cloud storage. From there, Azure Databricks can handle everything. The data can be ingested by Azure Databricks into a 3 Layer architecture based on the delta lake tables. The first layer, raw layer, has the raw as is data from source. The enrich layer, acts as the cleaning and filtering layer to clean the data at an individual table level. The gold layer, is the final layer responsible for a data model. This acts as the serving layer for BI For BI needs, if you need simple dashboards, you can leverage Azure Databricks BI to create them with a simple click! For complex dashboards, just like any sql db, you can hook it with a simple JDBC string to any external BI tool.
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Pros
  • Image tagging is very good.
  • Object detection is precise.
  • Video tagging has become very easy using Rekognition.
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  • Unity Catalog
  • Data Federation in Lakehouse Architecture
  • Integration of Mosaic AI in the SQL Layer
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Cons
  • The cost is bit more for small scale companies.
  • For text processing, OCR is not available in amazon rekognition.
  • Only facial search is available in image search.
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  • Their pipeline workflow orchestration is pretty primitive. Lacks some common features
  • Workspace UI and navigation requires steep learning curve
  • Personally, I am not fond of their autosave feature. Its dangerous for production level notebooks scripts
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Usability
Very much suitable for many applications where the image processing features are secondary and independent of any domain. This makes it a general solution and the recognition features are returned in a JSON object in response to the API called made which is a very simple process.
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Great for what we use day to day and does what we need it to do. Cost management is not fully developed across the UX and gets expensive very quickly for developing projects. Integrated very well with our Microsoft stack and can be worked on collaboratively which works well for us.
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Support Rating
Support of Amazon is great. So far we are having a great experience using it.
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Alternatives Considered
Accuracy and usability of amazon Rekognition are great. It provides many functionalities its competitors do not. Also, the Amazon service is great in general.
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I have found Azure Databricks to be much better than Snowflake for handling bigger, diverse data types. Snowflake is much simpler and better for smaller warehousing. The real time processing is much better in Azure Databricks and we have much more language options. Snowflake is more expensive but simpler to use. Both are great for different needs.
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Return on Investment
  • The best thing it made our work fast.
  • It reduces the chance of failure of a project which is based on image or video processing.
  • We can assign anyone in our team to work on this as it very easy to use.
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  • Helped reduce time for collecting data
  • Reduced cost in maintaining multiple data sources
  • Access for multiple users and management of users/data in a single platform
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