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Databricks Data Intelligence Platform vs. IBM Cloud Pak for Data

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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    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.

    $0.07

    Per DBU

    IBM Cloud Pak for Data

    Score7.4 out of 10
    N/AIBM Cloud Pak for Data (formerly IBM Cloud Private for Data) provides data management, data governance, and automated data discovery and classification.N/A
    Pricing
    Databricks Data Intelligence PlatformIBM Cloud Pak for Data
    Editions & Modules
    Standard
    $0.07
    Per DBU
    Premium
    $0.10
    Per DBU
    Enterprise
    $0.13
    Per DBU
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Databricks Data Intelligence PlatformIBM Cloud Pak for Data
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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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
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
    94%
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
    92%
    Implementation went as expected
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    Score8.6 out of 10
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    Score8.6 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Databricks Data Intelligence PlatformIBM Cloud Pak for Data
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.4
    (21 ratings)
    8.9
    (9 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    Usability
    9.7
    (7 ratings)
    -
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    Support Rating
    8.7
    (2 ratings)
    -
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    Professional Services
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
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    User Testimonials
    Databricks Data Intelligence PlatformIBM Cloud Pak for Data
    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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    IBM
    IBM Cloud Pak for Data with Netezza is well suited for clients who require fast, economical analytics processing. It is not designed to be used as a transactional processing environment. For example, a large customer is using it during the point of sale process. That makes little sense in that business case. However, to take analysis to market faster, it excels well in that space.
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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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    IBM
    • Increases our impact by combining BI skills with advanced analytics and machine learning in an easy to use visual interface.
    • Visualization and reporting.
    • Rapidly provides business -ready data to all users equally.
    • Manage data spread across distributed stores and clouds.
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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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    IBM
    • Cannot save changes to some secrets in the internal vault
    • Sign-in issues on environments where IAM is enabled
    • The Enforce quotas option is disabled
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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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    IBM
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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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    IBM
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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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    IBM
    IBM Cloud Pak for Data takes the IBM Cognos solution and provides this on an enterprise cloud platform that can be extended to support better data integration and data science capabilities.
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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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    IBM
    • We have the ability to access all our data much quicker through the unified search option.
    • 30% increase in productivity through the introduction of AI.
    • Improved data security and governance.
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