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    Amazon SageMaker AI

    Score8.9 out of 10
    N/AAmazon SageMaker AI is a fully managed AWS service for building, training, customizing, deploying, and managing AI and machine-learning models. It provides development environments, managed training infrastructure, model-serving options, experiment tracking, and governance controls for the model development lifecycle.N/A

    Databricks Data Intelligence Platform

    Score9.1 out of 10
    N/ADatabricks offers the Databricks Lakehouse Platform (formerly the Unified Analytics Platform), a data science platform and Apache Spark cluster manager. The Databricks Unified Data Service provides a platform for data pipelines, data lakes, and data platforms.

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    Amazon SageMaker AIDatabricks Data Intelligence Platform
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    $0.07
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    Premium
    $0.10
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    Enterprise
    $0.13
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    Offerings
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    Amazon SageMaker AIDatabricks Data Intelligence Platform
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    Free/Freemium Version
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    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    User Ratings
    Amazon SageMaker AIDatabricks Data Intelligence Platform
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (5 ratings)
    9.4
    (21 ratings)
    Usability
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    9.7
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    8.7
    (2 ratings)
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    User Testimonials
    Amazon SageMaker AIDatabricks Data Intelligence Platform
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Amazon AWS
    It allows for one-click processes and for things to be auto checked before they are moved through the process but through the system. It also makes training easy. I am able to train users on the basic fundamentals of the tool and how it is used very easily as it is fully managed on its own which is incredible.
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    Databricks
    Medium to Large data throughput shops will benefit the most from Databricks Spark processing. Smaller use cases may find the barrier to entry a bit too high for casual use cases. Some of the overhead to kicking off a Spark compute job can actually lead to your workloads taking longer, but past a certain point the performance returns cannot be beat.
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    Pros
    Amazon AWS
    • Machine Learning at scale by deploying huge amount of training data
    • Accelerated data processing for faster outputs and learnings
    • Kubernetes integration for containerized deployments
    • Creating API endpoints for use by technical users
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    Databricks
    • Process raw data in One Lake (S3) env to relational tables and views
    • Share notebooks with our business analysts so that they can use the queries and generate value out of the data
    • Try out PySpark and Spark SQL queries on raw data before using them in our Spark jobs
    • Modern day ETL operations made easy using Databricks. Provide access mechanism for different set of customers
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    Cons
    Amazon AWS
    • It's very good for the hardcore programmer, but a little bit complex for a data scientist or new hire who does not have a strong programming background.
    • Most of the popular library and ML frameworks are there, but we still have to depend on them for new releases.
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    Databricks
    • Sometimes, when multiple jobs depend on each other in different environments, it is not always easy to see the full workflow in one place.
    • It is sometimes difficult to determine which job or cluster contributes more to the overall cost.
    • For beginners, cluster configuration may be a little difficult. So more recommendation in the platform can help.
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    Usability
    Amazon AWS
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    Databricks
    Because it is an amazing platform for designing experiments and delivering a deep dive analysis that requires execution of highly complex queries, as well as it allows to share the information and insights across the company with their shared workspaces, while keeping it secured.

    in terms of graph generation and interaction it could improve their UI and UX
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    Support Rating
    Amazon AWS
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    Databricks
    One of the best customer and technology support that I have ever experienced in my career. You pay for what you get and you get the Rolls Royce. It reminds me of the customer support of SAS in the 2000s when the tools were reaching some limits and their engineer wanted to know more about what we were doing, long before "data science" was even a name. Databricks truly embraces the partnership with their customer and help them on any given challenge.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Amazon AWS
    Amazon SageMaker took the heavy lifting out of building and creating models. It allowed for our organization to use our current system for integration and essentially added on a feature to help all levels of Data scientists and IT professionals in our department and company as a whole. The training was simple as well.
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    Databricks
    The most important differentiating factor for Databricks Lakehouse Platform from these other platforms is support for ACID transactions and the time travel feature. Also, native integration with managed MLflow is a plus. EMR, Cloudera, and Hortonworks are not as optimized when it comes to Spark Job Execution. Other platforms need to be self-managed, which is another huge hassle.
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    Return on Investment
    Amazon AWS
    • We have been able to deliver data products more rapidly because we spend less time building data pipelines and model servers.
    • We can prototype more rapidly because it is easy to configure notebooks to access AWS resources.
    • For our use-cases, serving models is less expensive with SageMaker than bespoke servers.
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    Databricks
    • The ability to spin up a BIG Data platform with little infrastructure overhead allows us to focus on business value not admin
    • DB has the ability to terminate/time out instances which helps manage cost.
    • The ability to quickly access typical hard to build data scenarios easily is a strength.
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