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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
8.0
Oracle Data Warehouse
80%
12 Ratings
Usability
9.0
Databricks Lakehouse Platform
90%
3 Ratings
Oracle Data Warehouse
N/A
0 Ratings
Support Rating
7.5
Databricks Lakehouse Platform
75%
2 Ratings
Oracle Data Warehouse
N/A
0 Ratings
Contract Terms and Pricing Model
8.0
Databricks Lakehouse Platform
80%
1 Rating
Oracle Data Warehouse
N/A
0 Ratings
Professional Services
10.0
Databricks Lakehouse Platform
100%
1 Rating
Oracle Data Warehouse
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 employeesOracle Data Warehouse
Including other products, Oracle is very specialized in business support. Choosing Oracle Data Warehouse would be a safe choice for an enterprise-level company (more than a thousand employees). Healthcare organizations may want to consider Oracle, as they are typically conservative with privacy and security issues with patient data. Although cloud-based systems are widely being adopted in the healthcare industry (such as population research or genomics), core data sets (such as patients' sensitive medical records) may be better stored with a home-grown data center and warehouse solution.

Verified User
Project Manager in Research & Development
Hospital & Health Care Company, 10,001+ employeesPros
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

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Team Lead in Engineering
Financial Services Company, 10,001+ employeesOracle Data Warehouse
- Able to handle very large data sizes efficiently from a performance, high availability and manageability perspective. This is accomplished through the Oracle Partitioning functionality. Partitioning allows large segments (tables, IOT index-organized tables, indexes) to be broken into smaller segments at the physical layer but treated as a whole at the logical layer.
- Provides support for dual-format architecture through Oracle In-Memory functionality. Without any change to application code one can obtain in-memory performance. This functionality enables us to have the tables represented in both the row format and the column format using in-memory format. This is a huge boost for BI/analytic queries since the Oracle optimizer is able to intelligently choose the appropriate format.
- Provision to materialize a subset of table data or table joins. This is through materialized views and the optimizer will rewrite the query against the base tables to make use of this materialized view. This provides a huge performance boost and is critical in VLDBs as in a data warehouse. The query rewrite is fully transparent to users.
- Provides multiple compression capabilities. This is very useful not only for deducing the storage foot print but as well as increase performance at different layers of the infrastructure including query performance. The compression functionality can be applied against both structured and unstructured data.
- With the advent of Engineered Systems (Exadata, Database Machine, SuperCluster) there are specific features and functionalities that can further boost the Oracle data warehouse. These are related to consolidation, Smart Scan, Storage Indexes, EHCC (Exadata hybrid columnar compression) and much more.
- RAC - Real Application Clusters (with 2 or more nodes) provides functionality for high availability, performance and scaling as the work load increases. The parallelism is provided both within a node and as well as across nodes. If for any reason a node goes down the data warehouse is still available through other nodes and the running queries are transparently failed over to the surviving nodes.
Senior DBA and Architect
CMA Consulting ServicesInformation Technology and Services, 201-500 employees
Cons
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 employeesOracle Data Warehouse
- Customer support isn't the best out there. We usually have to wait about an hour to get some form of assistance.
- Pricing is a bit higher than many of its competitors such as AWS Redshift.
- Tweaking features requires dedicated staff. Software is fairly advanced. Would be difficult to use for newcomers.

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Engineer in Information Technology
Computer Software Company, 51-200 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
—Oracle Data Warehouse
General
Free Trial
—Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No
Starting Price
—Oracle Data Warehouse 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

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Manager in Product Management
Financial Services Company, 201-500 employeesOracle Data Warehouse
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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
Oracle Data Warehouse
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No answers yet
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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+ employeesOracle Data Warehouse
Oracle is, in my opinion, the top dog in this space. I feel like the other vendors are playing catch-up to where Oracle is right now. It is also likely the most expensive option out there.

Verified User
Employee in Information Technology
Financial Services Company, 1001-5000 employeesContract 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
Oracle Data Warehouse
No score
No answers yet
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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
Oracle Data Warehouse
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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
Oracle Data Warehouse
- Very cost effective for large databases.
- Very fast results on simple queries.
- Analytical functionalities are of wide range, which makes it very cost effective.
- For smaller businesses, it might be a great asset.
- Some features are supposed to be bought separately, so one needs to consider this before licensing with Oracle DW.
Data Analyst
The University of Texas at ArlingtonElectrical/Electronic Manufacturing, 1001-5000 employees