Databricks Lakehouse Platform vs TIBCO Spotfire

What users are saying about

Score 8.7 out of 10

Based on 49 reviews and ratings

Score 7.9 out of 10

Based on 759 reviews and ratings

All-New Spotfire X

Feature Set Ratings

BI Standard Reporting

Databricks Lakehouse Platform

Feature Set Not Supported

N/A

6.9

TIBCO Spotfire

69%

TIBCO Spotfire ranks higher in 3/3 features

Pixel Perfect reports

N/A

0 Ratings

6.1

61%

30 Ratings

Customizable dashboards

N/A

0 Ratings

8.1

81%

276 Ratings

Report Formatting Templates

N/A

0 Ratings

6.4

64%

241 Ratings

Ad-hoc Reporting

Databricks Lakehouse Platform

Feature Set Not Supported

N/A

7.7

TIBCO Spotfire

77%

TIBCO Spotfire ranks higher in 4/4 features

Drill-down analysis

N/A

0 Ratings

8.2

82%

271 Ratings

Formatting capabilities

N/A

0 Ratings

7.2

72%

284 Ratings

Integration with R or other statistical packages

N/A

0 Ratings

7.6

76%

207 Ratings

Report sharing and collaboration

N/A

0 Ratings

7.9

79%

256 Ratings

Report Output and Scheduling

Databricks Lakehouse Platform

Feature Set Not Supported

N/A

8.1

TIBCO Spotfire

81%

TIBCO Spotfire ranks higher in 4/4 features

Publish to Web

N/A

0 Ratings

8.2

82%

213 Ratings

Publish to PDF

N/A

0 Ratings

7.9

79%

251 Ratings

Report Versioning

N/A

0 Ratings

8.0

80%

18 Ratings

Report Delivery Scheduling

N/A

0 Ratings

8.2

82%

162 Ratings

Data Discovery and Visualization

Databricks Lakehouse Platform

Feature Set Not Supported

N/A

7.7

TIBCO Spotfire

77%

TIBCO Spotfire ranks higher in 3/3 features

Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)

N/A

0 Ratings

8.0

80%

289 Ratings

Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization

N/A

0 Ratings

7.7

77%

255 Ratings

Predictive Analytics

N/A

0 Ratings

7.6

76%

219 Ratings

Access Control and Security

Databricks Lakehouse Platform

Feature Set Not Supported

N/A

8.0

TIBCO Spotfire

80%

TIBCO Spotfire ranks higher in 3/3 features

Multi-User Support (named login)

N/A

0 Ratings

8.0

80%

223 Ratings

Role-Based Security Model

N/A

0 Ratings

7.6

76%

192 Ratings

Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)

N/A

0 Ratings

8.3

83%

211 Ratings

Mobile Capabilities

Databricks Lakehouse Platform

Feature Set Not Supported

N/A

7.2

TIBCO Spotfire

72%

TIBCO Spotfire ranks higher in 3/3 features

Responsive Design for Web Access

N/A

0 Ratings

8.0

80%

165 Ratings

Mobile Application

N/A

0 Ratings

7.3

73%

114 Ratings

Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile

N/A

0 Ratings

7.7

77%

137 Ratings

Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding

Databricks Lakehouse Platform

Feature Set Not Supported

N/A

7.5

TIBCO Spotfire

75%

TIBCO Spotfire ranks higher in 6/6 features

REST API

N/A

0 Ratings

7.6

76%

60 Ratings

Javascript API

N/A

0 Ratings

7.6

76%

58 Ratings

iFrames

N/A

0 Ratings

6.8

68%

43 Ratings

Java API

N/A

0 Ratings

7.2

72%

49 Ratings

Themeable User Interface (UI)

N/A

0 Ratings

8.0

80%

60 Ratings

Customizable Platform (Open Source)

N/A

0 Ratings

7.9

79%

51 Ratings

Attribute Ratings

Databricks Lakehouse Platform (Unified Analytics Platform) is rated higher in 2 areas: Likelihood to Recommend, Usability
TIBCO Spotfire is rated higher in 1 area: Support Rating

Databricks Lakehouse Platform

87%

15 Ratings

7.9

TIBCO Spotfire

79%

317 Ratings

Databricks Lakehouse Platform

N/A

0 Ratings

8.1

TIBCO Spotfire

81%

27 Ratings

Databricks Lakehouse Platform

90%

3 Ratings

8.3

TIBCO Spotfire

83%

24 Ratings

Databricks Lakehouse Platform

N/A

0 Ratings

7.2

TIBCO Spotfire

72%

27 Ratings

Databricks Lakehouse Platform

N/A

0 Ratings

7.2

TIBCO Spotfire

72%

27 Ratings

Databricks Lakehouse Platform

75%

2 Ratings

8.5

TIBCO Spotfire

85%

48 Ratings

Databricks Lakehouse Platform

N/A

0 Ratings

7.7

TIBCO Spotfire

77%

52 Ratings

Databricks Lakehouse Platform

N/A

0 Ratings

7.9

TIBCO Spotfire

79%

54 Ratings

Databricks Lakehouse Platform

N/A

0 Ratings

4.0

TIBCO Spotfire

40%

30 Ratings

Contract Terms and Pricing Model

8.0

Databricks Lakehouse Platform

80%

1 Rating

TIBCO Spotfire

N/A

0 Ratings

Databricks Lakehouse Platform

N/A

0 Ratings

7.1

TIBCO Spotfire

71%

4 Ratings

Databricks Lakehouse Platform

100%

1 Rating

TIBCO Spotfire

N/A

0 Ratings

Pros

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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Verified User

Team Lead in Engineering

Financial Services Company, 10,001+ employees

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It has the best coding integration (python, R) of any BI product
The ability to work with very large datasets (10 mil+) is better than competitors
Export options are more complete and have better functionality
The data canvas is the best tool to join and transform data vs. competitors

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Jim Putnam

Director, Advanced Analytics and Data Science

GOJO, Inc.Hospital & Health Care, 1001-5000 employees

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Cons

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.

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Verified User

Director in Information Technology

Financial Services Company, 201-500 employees

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They should have a lower price point for users to access the analyst version who don't require advanced capabilities. For example, a lower price if users just need to do some basic slicing and dicing with their data and not have to the data science functionality (ie. K-means clustering, regression modeling, classification modeling, etc.).
Currently, you can't change the font type/color on the axis, which I'm sure will eventually be available in the future as they have a Tibco Ideas portal that they're fairly responsive to and act on. I guess at the end of the day, it's about the data and what insights you get from it.

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Verified User

Professional in Information Technology

Oil & Energy Company, 51-200 employees

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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

Starting Price

$0.07 Per DBU

Databricks Lakehouse Platform Editions & Modules

Edition

Standard	$0.07¹
Premium	$0.10¹
Enterprise	$0.13¹

Per DBU

Additional Pricing Details

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General

Free Trial

Yes

Free/Freemium Version

Yes

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Yes

Entry-level set up fee?

Starting Price

$0 per seat

TIBCO Spotfire Editions & Modules

On-premise Edition

TIBCO Spotfire Platform	Please contact TIBCO sales

none

SaaS Edition

TIBCO Cloud Spotfire - Analyst	$125/mo, $1250/yr¹
TIBCO Cloud Spotfire - Business Author	$65/mo, $650/yr¹
TIBCO Spotfire for Amazon Web Services	$0.99²
TIBCO Spotfire Cloud Enterprise	Please contact TIBCO sales
TIBCO Cloud Spotfire - Consumer	$25/mo, $250/yr⁴

per seat
Per Hour (Starting)
none
per seat

Additional Pricing Details

For Enterprise engagements, please contact TIBCO directly for a custom price quote.

Likelihood to Renew

No score

No answers yet

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TIBCO Spotfire 8.1

Based on 27 answers

-Easy to distribute information throughout the enterprise using the webplayer.-Ad hoc analysis is possible throughout the enterprise using business author in the webplayer or the thick client.-Low level of support needed by IT team. Access interfaces with LDAP and numerous other authentication methods.-Possible to continually extend the platform with JavaScript, R scripts, HTML, and custom extensions.-Ability to standardize data logic through pre-built queries in the Information Designer. Everyone in the enterprise is using the same logic-Tagging and bookmarking data allows for quick sharing of insights.-Integration with numerous data sources... flat files, data bases, big data, images, etc.-Much improved mapping capability. Also includes the ability to apply data points over any image.

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Brent Meyers

Data Visualization Developer

QuintilesResearch, 10,001+ employees

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Usability

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

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Verified User

Manager in Product Management

Financial Services Company, 201-500 employees

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TIBCO Spotfire 8.3

Based on 24 answers

Basic tasks like generating meaningful information from large sets of raw data are very easy. The next step of linking to multiple live data sources and linking those tables and performing on the fly analysis of the imported data is understandably more difficult.

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Brock Robertson

Reservoir Engineer

Tapstone EnergyOil & Energy, 51-200 employees

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Reliability and Availability

No score

No answers yet

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TIBCO Spotfire 7.2

Based on 27 answers

Even though, it's a rather stable and predictable tool that's also fast, it does have some bugs and inconsistencies that shut down the system. Depending on the details, it could happen as often as 2-3 times a week, especially during the development period.

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Alex Naumov

Global Pricing and Marketing Operations Lead, Analytics & Research

General Electric - Power Generation ServicesOil & Energy, 10,001+ employees

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Performance

No score

No answers yet

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TIBCO Spotfire 7.2

Based on 27 answers

Generally, the Spotfire client runs with very good performance. There are factors that could affect performance, but normally has to do with loading large analysis files from the library if the database is located some distance away and your global network is not optimal. Once you have your data table(s) loaded in the client application, usually the application is quite good performance-wise.

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Verified User

Manager in Information Technology

Pharmaceuticals Company, 5001-10,000 employees

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Support Rating

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.

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Jonatan Bouchard

Director Data Science

CNTransportation/Trucking/Railroad, 10,001+ employees

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TIBCO Spotfire 8.5

Based on 48 answers

Support has been helpful with issues. Support seems to know their product and its capabilities. It would also seem that they have a good sense of the context of the problem; where we are going with this issue and what we want the end outcome to be.

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Tim Daciuk

Product Manager - Mobile Computing Analytics Cloud Platform

Zebra TechnologiesComputer Hardware, 5001-10,000 employees

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In-Person Training

No score

No answers yet

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TIBCO Spotfire 7.7

Based on 52 answers

The instructor was very in depth and provided relevant training to business users on how to create visualizations. They showed us how to alter settings and filter views, and provided resources for future questions.However, the instructor failed to cover data sources, connecting to data, etc. While it was helpful to see how users can use the data to create reports, they failed to properly instruct us on how to get the dataset in to begin with. We are still trying to figure out connections to certain databases (we have multiple different types).

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Verified User

Analyst in Finance and Accounting

Transportation/Trucking/Railroad Company, 10,001+ employees

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Online Training

No score

No answers yet

No answers on this topic

TIBCO Spotfire 7.9

Based on 54 answers

The online training is good, provides a good base of knowledge. The video demonstrations were well-done and easy to follow along. Provided exercises are good as well, but I think there could be more challenging exercises. The training has also gone up in price significantly in the last 3 years (in USD, which hurts us even more in Canada), and I'm not sure it is worth the money it now costs (it is worth how much it cost 3 years ago, but not double that.)

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Emilie Wheeler

Operations Analyst II

Empire LifeInsurance, 501-1000 employees

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Implementation Rating

No score

No answers yet

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TIBCO Spotfire 4.0

Based on 30 answers

The original architecture I created for our implementation had only a particular set of internal business units in mind. Over the years, Spotfire gained in popularity in our company and was being utilized across many more business units. Soon, its usage went beyond what the original architectural implementation could provide. We've since learned about how the product is used by the different teams and are currently in the middle of rolling out a new architecture.I suggest:

Have clearly defined service level agreements with all the teams that will use Spotfire. Your business intelligence group might only need availability during normal working hours, but your production support group might need 24/7 availability. If these groups share one Spotfire server, maintenance of that server might be a problem.
Know the different types of data you will be working with. One group might be working with "public" data while another group might work with sensitive data. Design your Library accordingly and with the proper permissions.
Know the roles of the users of Spotfire. Will there only be a small set of report writers or does everyone have write access to the Library?
ALWAYS add a timestamp prompt to your reports. You don't want multiple users opening a report that will try and pull down millions of rows of data to their local workstations. Another option, of course, is to just hard code a time range in the backing database view (i.e. where activity_date >= sysdate - 90, etc.), but I'd rather educate/train the user base if possible.
This probably goes without saying, but if possible, point to a separate reporting database or a logical standby database. You don't want the company pounding on your primaries and take down your order system.

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Michael Soliman

Senior Database Developer

TransUnion Interactive1001-5000 employees

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Alternatives Considered

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

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Verified User

Director in Information Technology

Hospitality Company, 10,001+ employees

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TIBCO Spotfire stacks up by performing real-time analytics on the transactional databases whereas Tableau Desktop will be great for historical or OLAP databases. TIBCO Spotfire can provide great advanced data science features when connected or integrated using R/Python thus giving a statistical view for reporting. It works smoothly with huge data sets but sometimes the performance may go down when connecting to multiple data sources at once.

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Ankit Gada ☑

Sr. Business Intelligence Consultant

Deloitte India (Offices of the US)Information Technology & Services, 10,001+ employees

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Contract Terms and Pricing Model

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

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Jonatan Bouchard

Director Data Science

CNTransportation/Trucking/Railroad, 10,001+ employees

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No score

No answers yet

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Scalability

No score

No answers yet

No answers on this topic

TIBCO Spotfire 7.1

Based on 4 answers

In an enterprise architecture, if Spotfire Advanced Data services(Composite Studio),data marts can be managed optimally and scalability in a data perspective is great. As the web player/consumer is directly proportional to RAM, if the enterprise can handle RAM requirement accomodating fail over mechanisms appropraitely, it is definitely scalable,

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Engineer in Information Technology

Information Technology and Services Company, 1001-5000 employees

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Professional Services

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.

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Jonatan Bouchard

Director Data Science

CNTransportation/Trucking/Railroad, 10,001+ employees

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No score

No answers yet

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Return on Investment

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.

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Ann Le

Freelance Translator

ZOO Digital Group plcEntertainment, 501-1000 employees

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We can only use it for the free trial period.
I have to 'rebuild' the course sample files and accounts on Spotfire every semester.
It is perfect as an excellent alternative to Tableau in the course.
We have to use the less powerful Cloud version since the majority of the students have Macs. This means we can't use advanced AI features, for example.

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Cindy Corritore

Professor, Business Analytics

Creighton UniversityE-Learning, 201-500 employees

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Screenshots

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Databricks Lakehouse Platform

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Pixel Perfect reports

Customizable dashboards

Report Formatting Templates

Databricks Lakehouse Platform

TIBCO Spotfire

Drill-down analysis

Formatting capabilities

Integration with R or other statistical packages

Report sharing and collaboration

Databricks Lakehouse Platform

TIBCO Spotfire

Publish to Web

Publish to PDF

Report Versioning

Report Delivery Scheduling

Databricks Lakehouse Platform

TIBCO Spotfire

Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)

Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization

Predictive Analytics

Databricks Lakehouse Platform

TIBCO Spotfire

Multi-User Support (named login)

Role-Based Security Model

Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)

Databricks Lakehouse Platform

TIBCO Spotfire

Responsive Design for Web Access

Mobile Application

Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile

Databricks Lakehouse Platform

TIBCO Spotfire

REST API

Javascript API

iFrames

Java API

Themeable User Interface (UI)

Customizable Platform (Open Source)

Databricks Lakehouse Platform

TIBCO Spotfire

Databricks Lakehouse Platform

TIBCO Spotfire

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TIBCO Spotfire

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TIBCO Spotfire

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Likelihood to Recommend

Databricks Lakehouse Platform

TIBCO Spotfire

Pros

Databricks Lakehouse Platform

TIBCO Spotfire

Cons

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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

Free/Freemium Version

Premium Consulting/Integration Services