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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

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    Rational BI

    Score7.7 out of 10
    Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
    Rational BI provides analytics, data science and business intelligence in an analytical platform that connects to databases, data files and cloud drives including AWS and Azure data sources, enabling users to explore and visualize data. Users can build real-time notebook-style reports directly in a web browser with JavaScript and SQL with direct and live connections to data. Filter and query data with an SQL database embedded in the client, without network…

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    Pricing
    Databricks Data Intelligence PlatformRational BI
    Editions & Modules
    Standard
    $0.07
    Per DBU
    Premium
    $0.10
    Per DBU
    Enterprise
    $0.13
    Per DBU
    Free
    $0
    single user
    Professional
    $129
    single user
    Enterprise
    Varies
    single user
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Databricks Data Intelligence PlatformRational BI
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
    Additional DetailsAdditional cost per extra user (varies by edition)
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    Community Pulse
    Databricks Data Intelligence PlatformRational BI
    Considered Both Products
    Databricks
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    100%
    Would buy again
    16 Answers
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    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    16 Answers
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    Happy with the feature set
    94%
    Happy with the feature set
    15 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    10 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation went as expected
    92%
    Implementation went as expected
    12 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Features
    Databricks Data Intelligence PlatformRational BI
    BI Standard Reporting
    Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Databricks Data Intelligence Platform and Rational BI
    Feature
    Databricks Data Intelligence Platform
    -
    Ratings
    Rational BI
    8.3
    4 Ratings
    3% above category average
    Pixel Perfect reports00 Ratings7.63 Ratings
    Customizable dashboards00 Ratings8.74 Ratings
    Report Formatting Templates00 Ratings8.54 Ratings
    Ad-hoc Reporting
    Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Databricks Data Intelligence Platform and Rational BI
    Feature
    Databricks Data Intelligence Platform
    -
    Ratings
    Rational BI
    8.3
    4 Ratings
    6% above category average
    Drill-down analysis00 Ratings7.73 Ratings
    Formatting capabilities00 Ratings8.24 Ratings
    Integration with R or other statistical packages00 Ratings8.03 Ratings
    Report sharing and collaboration00 Ratings9.24 Ratings
    Report Output and Scheduling
    Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Databricks Data Intelligence Platform and Rational BI
    Feature
    Databricks Data Intelligence Platform
    -
    Ratings
    Rational BI
    9.0
    4 Ratings
    10% above category average
    Publish to Web00 Ratings9.03 Ratings
    Publish to PDF00 Ratings9.04 Ratings
    Report Versioning00 Ratings8.63 Ratings
    Report Delivery Scheduling00 Ratings9.24 Ratings
    Delivery to Remote Servers00 Ratings9.33 Ratings
    Data Discovery and Visualization
    Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Databricks Data Intelligence Platform and Rational BI
    Feature
    Databricks Data Intelligence Platform
    -
    Ratings
    Rational BI
    8.2
    4 Ratings
    6% above category average
    Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)00 Ratings8.24 Ratings
    Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization00 Ratings8.33 Ratings
    Predictive Analytics00 Ratings7.93 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    Databricks Data Intelligence PlatformRational BI
    Small Businesses
    No answers on this topic
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    Score7.5 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    SAP Business Data Cloud
    Score8.6 out of 10
    Jet Reports
    Score9.5 out of 10
    Enterprises
    SAP Business Data Cloud
    Score8.6 out of 10
    Kibana
    Score8.4 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Databricks Data Intelligence PlatformRational BI
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.4
    (21 ratings)
    7.7
    (4 ratings)
    Usability
    9.7
    (7 ratings)
    8.7
    (4 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.7
    (2 ratings)
    7.7
    (4 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Professional Services
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Databricks Data Intelligence PlatformRational BI
    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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    Rational BI
    Definitely well suited for small companies, but again many of their competitors are also well suited in this segment. We were in general happy with the solution provided, but I'm not blown away by their solution or support. If you want to get more data-driven visual boards with data displayed in nice graphics is in my opinion a good start, and here Rational BI delivers what it should.
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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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    Rational BI
    • Arrange data.
    • Dashboard.
    • Automatic reports.
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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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    Rational BI
    • Not seeing anything at this time, comprehensive product.
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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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    Rational BI
    Overall Rational BI is a valuable enterprise reporting tool for any data driven organization. It offers great depth and breadth of features for reporting and analytics that can lead to better business outcomes. Its easy to use and highly configurable to evolve to changing reporting needs of organizations of any scale.
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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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    Rational BI
    I haven't used the support myself, but my colleagues have been satisfied with the support. As I have understood from my colleagues the support is as you could expect. Still, the documentation could be better and that could avoid the need to contact their support, but overall we're still happy with the support as well.
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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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    Rational BI
    Rational BI allows a deeper data analysis with respect to the other software I experimented with. The velocity to perform the analysis is similar to the other one. The predictive analysis could be very useful, but at the moment I do not use it in my activities. Dashboards are nice and easy to understand.
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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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    Rational BI
    • Allows folks to work on other items as reporting is done in the background.
    • Scheduling and delivery of reports with one click.
    • Single pane of management.
    • Ease of use.
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    Screenshot of Modern Business IntelligenceScreenshot of Drag-and-drop InsightsScreenshot of Accessible for everyone, power when you need itScreenshot of Beautiful analytics on every screen and deviceScreenshot of Scheduled reporting: Broadcast your findings to everyoneScreenshot of Connect all your data no matter where it lives