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Attribute Ratings
- Databricks Lakehouse Platform (Unified Analytics Platform) is rated higher in 1 area: Likelihood to Recommend
Likelihood to Recommend
8.7
Databricks Lakehouse Platform
87%
15 Ratings

7.0
Hortonworks Data Platform
70%
9 Ratings
Usability
9.0
Databricks Lakehouse Platform
90%
3 Ratings

Hortonworks Data Platform
N/A
0 Ratings
Support Rating
7.5
Databricks Lakehouse Platform
75%
2 Ratings

Hortonworks Data Platform
N/A
0 Ratings
Implementation Rating
Databricks Lakehouse Platform
N/A
0 Ratings

9.0
Hortonworks Data Platform
90%
2 Ratings
Contract Terms and Pricing Model
8.0
Databricks Lakehouse Platform
80%
1 Rating

Hortonworks Data Platform
N/A
0 Ratings
Professional Services
10.0
Databricks Lakehouse Platform
100%
1 Rating

Hortonworks Data Platform
N/A
0 Ratings
Likelihood to Recommend
Databricks Lakehouse Platform
If you need a managed big data megastore, which has native integration with highly optimized Apache Spark Engine and native integration with MLflow, go for Databricks Lakehouse Platform. The Databricks Lakehouse Platform is a breeze to use and analytics capabilities are supported out of the box. You will find it a bit difficult to manage code in notebooks but you will get used to it soon.

Verified User
Engineer in Engineering
Computer Software Company, 1001-5000 employeesHortonworks Data Platform
I find HDP easy to use and solves most of the problems for people looking to manage their big data. Evaluating the Hortonworks Data Platform is easy as it is free to download and install in your cluster. Single node cluster available as Sandbox is also easy for POCs.
Senior Software Developer
NventInformation Technology and Services, 11-50 employees
Pros
Databricks Lakehouse Platform
- 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

Verified User
Team Lead in Engineering
Financial Services Company, 10,001+ employeesHortonworks Data Platform
- It does a good job of packaging a lot of big data components into bundles and lets you use the ones you are interested in or need. It supports an extensive list of components which lets us solve many problems.
- It provides the ability to manage installations and maintenance using Apache Ambari. It helps us in using management packs to install/upgrade components easily. It also helps us add, remove components, add, remove hosts, perform upgrades in a convenient manner. It also provides alerts and notifications and monitors the environment.
- What they excel in is packaging open source components that are relevant and are useful to solve and complement each other as well as contribute to enhancing those components. They do a great job in the community to keep on top of what would be useful to users, fixing bugs and working with other companies and individuals to make the platform better.

Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Hospital & Health Care Company, 10,001+ employeesCons
Databricks Lakehouse Platform
- Better Localized Testing
- When they were primarily OSS Spark; it was easier to test/manage releases versus the newer DB Runtime. Wish there was more configuration in Runtime less pick a version.
- Graphing Support went non-existent; when it was one of their compelling general engine.

Verified User
Director in Information Technology
Financial Services Company, 201-500 employeesHortonworks Data Platform
- Since it doesn't come with propriety tools for big data management, additional integration is need (for query handling, search, etc).
- It was very straightforward to store clinical data without relations, such as data from sensors of a medical device. But it has limitations when needed to combine the data with other clinical data in structured format (e.g. lab results, diagnosis).
- Overall look and feel of front-end management tools (e.g. monitoring) are not good. It is not bad but it doesn't look professional.

Verified User
Team Lead in Research & Development
Hospital & Health Care Company, 10,001+ employeesPricing Details
Databricks Lakehouse Platform
General
Free Trial
—Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No
Starting Price
$0.07 Per DBU
Databricks Lakehouse Platform Editions & Modules
Edition
Standard | $0.071 |
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Premium | $0.101 |
Enterprise | $0.131 |
- Per DBU
Additional Pricing Details
—Hortonworks Data Platform
General
Free Trial
—Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No
Starting Price
—Hortonworks Data Platform Editions & Modules
—
Additional Pricing Details
—Usability
Databricks Lakehouse Platform
Databricks Lakehouse Platform 9.0
Based on 3 answers
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
in terms of graph generation and interaction it could improve their UI and UX

Verified User
Manager in Product Management
Financial Services Company, 201-500 employeesHortonworks Data Platform
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
Support Rating
Databricks Lakehouse Platform
Databricks Lakehouse Platform 7.5
Based on 2 answers
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.
Director Data Science
CNTransportation/Trucking/Railroad, 10,001+ employees
Hortonworks Data Platform
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
Implementation Rating
Databricks Lakehouse Platform
No score
No answers yet
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Hortonworks Data Platform
Hortonworks Data Platform 9.0
Based on 2 answers
Try not to change variable names.
Principal Software Engineer
Videojet TechnologiesPrinting, 1001-5000 employees
Alternatives Considered
Databricks Lakehouse 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 performance boost can be achieved in Databricks rather Open source synapse spark

Verified User
Director in Information Technology
Hospitality Company, 10,001+ employeesHortonworks Data Platform
We chose [Hortonworks Data Platform] because it's free and because [it] was an IBM partner, suggested as big data platform after biginsights platform.
You can install in more physical computer without high specs, then you can use it in order to learn how to deploy, configure a complete big data cluster.
We installed also in a cloud infrastructure of 5 virtual machine
Project List 2018 - 2012
Blue ReplyOnline Media, 5001-10,000 employees
Contract Terms and Pricing Model
Databricks Lakehouse Platform
Databricks Lakehouse Platform 8.0
Based on 1 answer
The problem with this tool and all other ones that are at the top of the industry, it's so expensive that soon as another one will be on the market and deliver the same or different value, it will be catastrophic for them. So you get the fact that they are cashing every dime right now like SAS or Hadoop once did. Now, look at them
Director Data Science
CNTransportation/Trucking/Railroad, 10,001+ employees
Hortonworks Data Platform
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
Professional Services
Databricks Lakehouse Platform
Databricks Lakehouse Platform 10.0
Based on 1 answer
Again, another level of professional services, this is not their biggest strength but this is the cherry on top. I couldn't think about any other professional services like this one. Now I'm talking about meaningful services that really help out our project and delivery.
Director Data Science
CNTransportation/Trucking/Railroad, 10,001+ employees
Hortonworks Data Platform
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
Return on Investment
Databricks Lakehouse Platform
- Machine learning is a very new concept and not many universities offer to teach it. My school and a few others have been utilizing Databricks as one of the tools to teach and learn machine learning. By doing this, my university is creating a strong future workforce for the job market.
Freelance Translator
ZOO Digital Group plcEntertainment, 501-1000 employees
Hortonworks Data Platform
- It is difficult to have a negative impact, because the required investment is not that high.
- The big open community behind Hortonworks and related Apache Project makes it easy to put 'the wheel to meet the road' quite quickly.
- We have seen management meetings where the attendants were impressed by the results achieved with the datalake built on HDP.
Big Data & Cognitive Computing Practice Leader
QuanamInformation Technology and Services, 201-500 employees