Azure Databricks vs. Keras

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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I would recommend it for use when anyone wants to quickly develop a neural network. Or if a user is solving any machine learning problem that includes deep learning. And this kind of problem will be like image recognition, face recognition, doing some text analysis using deep learning which includes LSTM or some other algorithm.

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• Unity Catalog
• Data Federation in Lakehouse Architecture
• Integration of Mosaic AI in the SQL Layer

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• Implementing neural networks and deep learning models is easy with this.
• Data processing is easy with Python and Keras. Keras helps a lot and has a good collection of functions to do data processing.
• It has good integration with other devices like Android.

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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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• I didn't face any issue so far.
• The only thing, you can't modify everything in this. So it's not recommended for constructing highly optimised algorithms.

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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The reason for giving this much rating. 1. It makes my job really easy and fast. 2. Strong community support. 3. Overall cost.

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Keras have really good support along with the strong community over the internet. So in case you stuck, It won't so hard to get out from it.

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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As Keras is the high level API, so using Keras, we don't have to be bothered by the low level TensorFlow complexity, and we can reduce a lot coding and testing efforts.

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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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• It helped me in learning the basic concept of deep learning by having hands-on experience.
• It has helped us to implement our NN with very little time.
• It doesn't give you the whole power to customize your neural network. If you want that then you have to shift to TensorFLow

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