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Databricks Data Intelligence Platform vs. SAS Enterprise Miner

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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

    SAS Enterprise Miner

    Score9 out of 10
    N/ASAS Enterprise Miner is a data science and statistical modeling solution enabling the creation of predictive and descriptive models on very large data sources across the organization.N/A
    Pricing
    Databricks Data Intelligence PlatformSAS Enterprise Miner
    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 PlatformSAS Enterprise Miner
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Databricks Data Intelligence PlatformSAS Enterprise Miner
    Considered Both Products
    Databricks
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    SAS
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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
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    10 Answers
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    Implementation went as expected
    92%
    Implementation went as expected
    12 Answers
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    Features
    Databricks Data Intelligence PlatformSAS Enterprise Miner
    Platform Connectivity
    Comparison of Platform Connectivity features of Databricks Data Intelligence Platform and SAS Enterprise Miner
    Feature
    Databricks Data Intelligence Platform
    -
    Ratings
    SAS Enterprise Miner
    8.8
    4 Ratings
    5% above category average
    Connect to Multiple Data Sources00 Ratings8.14 Ratings
    Extend Existing Data Sources00 Ratings9.04 Ratings
    Automatic Data Format Detection00 Ratings9.34 Ratings
    MDM Integration00 Ratings9.02 Ratings
    Data Exploration
    Comparison of Data Exploration features of Databricks Data Intelligence Platform and SAS Enterprise Miner
    Feature
    Databricks Data Intelligence Platform
    -
    Ratings
    SAS Enterprise Miner
    8.1
    4 Ratings
    4% below category average
    Visualization00 Ratings7.14 Ratings
    Interactive Data Analysis00 Ratings9.14 Ratings
    Data Preparation
    Comparison of Data Preparation features of Databricks Data Intelligence Platform and SAS Enterprise Miner
    Feature
    Databricks Data Intelligence Platform
    -
    Ratings
    SAS Enterprise Miner
    8.0
    4 Ratings
    2% below category average
    Interactive Data Cleaning and Enrichment00 Ratings7.84 Ratings
    Data Transformations00 Ratings8.24 Ratings
    Data Encryption00 Ratings8.12 Ratings
    Built-in Processors00 Ratings8.12 Ratings
    Platform Data Modeling
    Comparison of Platform Data Modeling features of Databricks Data Intelligence Platform and SAS Enterprise Miner
    Feature
    Databricks Data Intelligence Platform
    -
    Ratings
    SAS Enterprise Miner
    8.8
    4 Ratings
    4% above category average
    Multiple Model Development Languages and Tools00 Ratings7.54 Ratings
    Automated Machine Learning00 Ratings9.82 Ratings
    Single platform for multiple model development00 Ratings8.54 Ratings
    Self-Service Model Delivery00 Ratings9.23 Ratings
    Model Deployment
    Comparison of Model Deployment features of Databricks Data Intelligence Platform and SAS Enterprise Miner
    Feature
    Databricks Data Intelligence Platform
    -
    Ratings
    SAS Enterprise Miner
    7.8
    4 Ratings
    9% below category average
    Flexible Model Publishing Options00 Ratings7.04 Ratings
    Security, Governance, and Cost Controls00 Ratings8.54 Ratings
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    RapidMiner
    Score8.9 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
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    Score8.6 out of 10
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    Score8.8 out of 10
    Enterprises
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    User Ratings
    Databricks Data Intelligence PlatformSAS Enterprise Miner
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.4
    (21 ratings)
    9.9
    (4 ratings)
    Usability
    9.7
    (7 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.7
    (2 ratings)
    10.0
    (2 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 PlatformSAS Enterprise Miner
    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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    SAS
    SAS Enterprise Miner is world-class software for individuals interested in developing reproducible models in a reasonable amount of time. Perhaps the most useful part of SAS Enterprise Miner is the ability to compare models with other models without writing code. The ensemble modeling capabilities is the easiest way to do ensemble modeling I have come across. SAS Enterprise Miner is well-suited for beginning to advanced analysts who know something about advanced analytics. The software is not well-suited for analysts or companies that have little interest in advanced modeling.
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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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    SAS
    • Enterprise Miner is really visual and lets you do a whole lot without actually going into the detailed options. For decent results, you should really explore the different advanced options though.
    • The recent versions of Miner allow users to use R code in Miner. You can then compare several models and approach to get the best performing model.
    • The resulting data is really well displayed and easy to understand (ex: the lift graph, score ranking, etc.)
    • Miner has the ability to integrate custom SAS code which allows the user to add functionalities that are specific to the project.
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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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    SAS
    • SAS is not as user friendly as other stats software.
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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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    SAS
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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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    SAS
    SAS' customer support used to be non-existent many years ago. Today, contacting SAS customer support is great. They are responsible, knowledgable, and seem to have an interest in getting the results right the first time. With that said, Enterprise Miner's online support is weak, probably because the user base is much smaller than other tools.
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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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    SAS
    SAS EM has a very great set of machine learning and predictive analytics toolsets, which helped our organization achieve its goals. We used other tools, but for us, SAS EM was the most intuitive and easy to learn the tool and it provides greater data exploration and data preparation capabilities compared to the other tools we used.
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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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    SAS
    • In our organization, users were using SAS already so the learning curve was really low. Within a few weeks after the implementation, the users were already delivering models developed with SAS Enterprise Miner. It is difficult to talk about ROI as models were already being developed before. It was mostly a change of technology and it was a smooth transition.
    • Going with Enterprise Miner came with migration from desktop use of SAS to a server use of SAS. This created a new role of SAS administrator. This was obviously a cost but as the use of SAS increased greatly, it was expected.
    • From a methodology standpoint, Enterprise Miner helped greatly in the documentation of the model development which was a requirement in a few groups such as the risk groups. Having a visual "GUI-like" approach to development, the flowchart or diagram of the project in Miner was able to give users a good understanding of the approach the analyst took to develop the model.
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