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    Databricks Data Intelligence Platform

    Score9 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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    Databricks Data Intelligence Platform
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    Standard
    $0.07
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    Premium
    $0.10
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    Enterprise
    $0.13
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    Databricks Data Intelligence Platform
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    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup fee
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    Databricks Data Intelligence Platform
    Considered Both Products
    Databricks
    Chose Databricks Data Intelligence Platform
    Databricks notebook give a good managed solution to all of these solutions combined with minimal maintenance
    Incentivized
    Chose Databricks Data Intelligence Platform
    Databricks is a true all-in-one platform, and at the time of implementation, it had more features available to us, making it a clear choice over Snowflake. Moving our workloads from local computing to the servers in Databricks gave our start-up staff a great quality of life …
    Incentivized
    Chose Databricks Data Intelligence Platform
    Compared to Synapse & Snowflake, Databricks provides a much better development experience, and deeper configuration capabilities.
    It works out-of-the-box but still allows you intricate customisation of the environment.
    I find Databricks very flexible and resilient at the same …
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    Incentivized
    Chose Databricks Data Intelligence Platform
    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 …
    Incentivized
    Chose Databricks Data Intelligence Platform
    Databricks has a much better edge than Synapse in hundred different ways. Databricks has Photon engine, faster available release in cloud and databricks does not run on Open source spark version so better optimization, better performance and better agility and all kind of …
    Incentivized
    Chose Databricks Data Intelligence Platform
    Databricks [Lakehouse Platform (Unified Analytics Platform)] can work with all data types in their original format while Snowflake requires additional structures to fit the data before loading it. Databricks is open source so potential is far greater.
    Incentivized
    Chose Databricks Data Intelligence Platform
    Databricks provides support for CURD operations by introducing Delta Lake file format.
    Cloudera doesn't have support for the same.
    Incentivized
    Chose Databricks Data Intelligence Platform
    Databricks was picked among other competitors. Closest competition in our organization was H2O.ai and Databricks came out to be more useful for ROI and time to market in our internal research.
    We could have used AWS products, however Databricks notebooks and ability to launch …
    Incentivized
    Chose Databricks Data Intelligence Platform
    When we started using it, only the notebook experience was mature. However, DB was very helpful giving us direct support to get onto their platform. Really there was little in the way to compare to them at the time. AWS has services but not the same low-cost angle.
    Incentivized
    Chose Databricks Data Intelligence Platform
    I also use Microsoft Azure Machine Learning in parallel with Databricks. They use different file formats which teach me to be flexible and able to write different programs. They are equally useful to me and I would like to master both platforms for any future usage. I do prefer …
    Incentivized
    Chose Databricks Data Intelligence Platform
    Easier to set up and get started. Less of a learning curve.
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
    94%
    Happy with the feature set
    15 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
    92%
    Implementation went as expected
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    SAP Business Data Cloud
    Score8.6 out of 10
    Enterprises
    SAP Business Data Cloud
    Score8.6 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Databricks Data Intelligence Platform
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.4
    (21 ratings)
    Usability
    9.7
    (7 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.7
    (2 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Professional Services
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Databricks Data Intelligence Platform
    Likelihood to Recommend
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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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