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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.

    $0.07

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    ParAccel

    Score8.8 out of 10
    N/AParAccel was a data warehouse appliance (DWA) option, offered by Actian since the April 2013 acquisition of ParAccel as Actian Matrix, that has since been discontinued.N/A
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    Databricks Data Intelligence PlatformParAccel
    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 PlatformParAccel
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Databricks Data Intelligence PlatformParAccel
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    Databricks
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    100%
    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
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    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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    Best Alternatives
    Databricks Data Intelligence PlatformParAccel
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    Medium-sized Companies
    SAP Business Data Cloud
    Score8.6 out of 10
    Cloudera Enterprise Data Hub
    Score9 out of 10
    Enterprises
    SAP Business Data Cloud
    Score8.6 out of 10
    Oracle Exadata
    Score9.8 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Databricks Data Intelligence PlatformParAccel
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.4
    (21 ratings)
    8.8
    (3 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    9.7
    (7 ratings)
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.7
    (2 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
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    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    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 PlatformParAccel
    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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    Discontinued Products
    Actian matrix is not good for small data sets. If you have a limited data pool, or do not plan on having multiple users/clients accessing a data source, stick with a more traditional relational database model - Access for the truly small user base, or a DB2 or Oracle back end if your going to have multiple users, and moderate sized data. Actian is for LARGE data sets (Big Data, in the industry parlance). Millions of rows of data from multiple sources with various down stream systems accessing the database. It is for data analytics of large data groups and intense data mining.
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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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    • Super fast. Aggregate query such as SUM(), Count() returns result within seconds from a table with more than billion records.
    • Excellent data compression.
    • Easy maintenance. We managed this database without having a full time DBA.
    • Support ANSI SQL and ODBC/JDBC. It's easy to connect to this database from other systems.
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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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    • Some of the bugs were annoying and QA definitely needs improvement
    • Connectivity to Informatica and ETL providers
    • Workload management could be better like when you compare with Teradata
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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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    I wish to give higher rating for the speed and efficiency in handling the queries, but only 6 because of consistent bugs we encounter
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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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    • Faster initial response
    • Trained professionals
    • Very helpful in resolving issues
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    Implementation Rating
    Databricks
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    Discontinued Products
    Leader failover setup is the toughest and lack of proper documentation is making things tough.
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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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    Discontinued Products
    Actian Matrix is our first big data analytics storage platform, and as I was not involved in the POC process to compare it to other products out on the market, unfortunately I cannot say if it is better than other Big Data storage options. I can say that it out performs products such as Oracle or UDB in regards to the volume of data it can easily index and handle.
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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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    • ROI is great, less spending on full time DBA and that money could be use to add additional node.
    • Negative - Not many developers are well aware of this tool, it takes some time to learn.
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