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    RapidMiner

    Score8.9 out of 10
    N/ARapidMiner is a data science and data mining platform, from Altair since the late 2022 acquisition. RapidMiner offers full automation for non-coding domain experts, an integrated JupyterLab environment for seasoned data scientists, and a visual drag-and-drop designer. RapidMiner’s project-based framework helps to ensure that others can build off their work using visual workflows or automated data science.

    $7,500

    Per User Per Month

    Microsoft SQL Server

    Score8.7 out of 10
    N/AMicrosoft SQL Server is a relational database.

    $1,418

    Per License

    Pricing
    RapidMinerMicrosoft SQL Server
    Editions & Modules
    Professional
    $7,500.00
    Per User Per Month
    Enterprise
    $15,000.00
    Per User Per Month
    AI Hub
    $54,000.00
    Per User Per Month
    Subscription
    $1,418.00
    Per License
    Enterprise
    $13,748.00
    Per License
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    RapidMinerMicrosoft SQL Server
    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
    RapidMinerMicrosoft SQL Server
    Considered Both Products
    Altair Engineering, Inc.
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    Microsoft
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    100%
    Would buy again
    53 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
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    96%
    Delivers good value for the price
    45 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
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    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    53 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Implementation went as expected
    45 Answers
    Features
    RapidMinerMicrosoft SQL Server
    Platform Connectivity
    Comparison of Platform Connectivity features of RapidMiner and Microsoft SQL Server
    Feature
    RapidMiner
    9.5
    2 Ratings
    13% above category average
    Microsoft SQL Server
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    Connect to Multiple Data Sources10.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Extend Existing Data Sources10.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Automatic Data Format Detection9.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    MDM Integration9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data Exploration
    Comparison of Data Exploration features of RapidMiner and Microsoft SQL Server
    Feature
    RapidMiner
    9.0
    2 Ratings
    7% above category average
    Microsoft SQL Server
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    Visualization9.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Interactive Data Analysis9.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data Preparation
    Comparison of Data Preparation features of RapidMiner and Microsoft SQL Server
    Feature
    RapidMiner
    8.8
    2 Ratings
    7% above category average
    Microsoft SQL Server
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    Interactive Data Cleaning and Enrichment9.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data Transformations7.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data Encryption9.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Built-in Processors10.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Platform Data Modeling
    Comparison of Platform Data Modeling features of RapidMiner and Microsoft SQL Server
    Feature
    RapidMiner
    9.0
    2 Ratings
    6% above category average
    Microsoft SQL Server
    -
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    Multiple Model Development Languages and Tools9.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Automated Machine Learning9.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Single platform for multiple model development9.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Self-Service Model Delivery9.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Model Deployment
    Comparison of Model Deployment features of RapidMiner and Microsoft SQL Server
    Feature
    RapidMiner
    9.0
    2 Ratings
    6% above category average
    Microsoft SQL Server
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    Flexible Model Publishing Options9.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Security, Governance, and Cost Controls9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
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    RapidMinerMicrosoft SQL Server
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    Anaconda
    Score8.8 out of 10
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    Score8.2 out of 10
    Enterprises
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    Score10 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    RapidMinerMicrosoft SQL Server
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (18 ratings)
    7.9
    (107 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
    (8 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    7.6
    (17 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.9
    (26 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
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    9.0
    (6 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Data Sharing and Collaboration
    -
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    9.0
    (5 ratings)
    Data Sources
    -
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    10.0
    (5 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
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    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
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    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
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    9.0
    (1 ratings)
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    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    RapidMinerMicrosoft SQL Server
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Altair Engineering, Inc.
    RapidMiner is really fantastic to perform fast ETL processes and work on your data as you want, no matter what is the source. You will really save a lot of time when you learn how to use it. You can create mining analysis with several algorithms, and thanks to add-ons, you can apply a lot of techniques. It will not replace a business intelligence dashboard but it allows to create great datamarts for your BI tools. One negative thing is that It's no easy to share your outputs.
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    Microsoft
    Microsoft SQL is ubiquitous, while MySQL runs under the hood all over the place. Microsoft SQL is the platform taught in colleges and certification courses and is the one most likely to be used by businesses because it is backed by Microsoft. Its interface is friendly (well, as pleasant as SQL can be) and has been used by so many for so long that resources are freely available if you encounter any issues.
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    Pros
    Altair Engineering, Inc.
    • I am very impressed at how easily you can work within RapidMiner without much data analytics training. Plus with the help of the crowd, you can see what steps others have taken with their data analytics projects.
    • Text mining was simple and clean. We used this for our call transcription problem where we didn't have the resources to listen to each call. We needed to qualify each call based on some key phrases.
    • Our direct mail program was large and not very targeted. Using RapidMiner, we were able to isolate a predictive level we felt comfortable with and decided not to send to anyone below that level. We saved quite a bit of money.
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    Microsoft
    • Easy to configure and use with Visual Studio and Dot Net
    • Easy integration with MSBI to perform data analysis
    • Data Security
    • Easy to understand and use
    • Very easy to export database and tables in the form of SQL query or a script
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    Cons
    Altair Engineering, Inc.
    • I hope RapidMiner would be the first data science platform that allows data scientists to change the behaviour of a machine learning algorithm that already exists in the repository. For example, I want to be able to change the way a genetic algorithm mutates.
    • Automatic programming: One day, I hope RapidMiner can automatically generate codes in any 4th generation programming language based on the developed model.
    • More tutorials/samples needed: Why doesn't RapidMiner becomes the next 'UC Irvine Machine Learning Repository'? Provide real examples and real cases for users to study and understand the best practices in modelling. RapidMiner already has some datasets for a tutorial. Besides the existing samples, I hope RapidMiner can provide more sample data and examples.
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    Microsoft
    • Microsoft SQL Server Enterprise edition has a high cost but is the only edition which supports SQL Always On Availability Groups. It would be nice to include this feature in the Standard version.
    • Licensing of Microsoft SQL Server is a quite complex matter, it would be good to simplify licensing in the future. For example, per core vs per user CAL licensing, as well as complex licensing scenarios in the Cloud and on Edge locations.
    • It would be good to include native tools for converting Oracle, DB2, Postgresql and MySQL/MariaDB databases (schema and data) for import into Microsoft SQL Server.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Altair Engineering, Inc.
    Very fast and user-friendly tool
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    Microsoft
    We understand that the Microsoft SQL Server will continue to advance, offering the same robust and reliable platform while adding new features that enable us, as a software center, to create a superior product. That provides excellent performance while reducing the hardware requirements and the total cost of ownership of our solution.
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    Usability
    Altair Engineering, Inc.
    Very use to use and learn
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    Microsoft
    SQL Server mostly 'just works' or generates error messages to help you sort out the trouble. You can usually count on the product to get the job done and keep an eye on your potential mistakes. Interaction with other Microsoft products makes operating as a Windows user pretty straight forward. Digging through the multitude of dialogs and wizards can be a pain, but the answer is usually there somewhere.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Altair Engineering, Inc.
    No answers on this topic
    Microsoft
    Its does not have outages.
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    Performance
    Altair Engineering, Inc.
    No answers on this topic
    Microsoft
    SSAS data cubes may some time slow down your Excel reports.
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    Support Rating
    Altair Engineering, Inc.
    No answers on this topic
    Microsoft
    We managed to handle most of our problems by looking into Microsoft's official documentation that has everything explained and almost every function has an example that illustrates in detail how a particular functionality works. Just like PowerShell has the ability to show you an example of how some cmdlet works, that is the case also here, and in my opinion, it is a very good practice and I like it.
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    In-Person Training
    Altair Engineering, Inc.
    No answers on this topic
    Microsoft
    It was good
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    Online Training
    Altair Engineering, Inc.
    No answers on this topic
    Microsoft
    very hands on and detailed training
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    Implementation Rating
    Altair Engineering, Inc.
    No answers on this topic
    Microsoft
    Other than SQL taking quite a bit of time to actually install there are no problems with installation. Even on hardware that has good performance SQL can still take close to an hour to install a typical server with management and reporting services.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Altair Engineering, Inc.
    We tried different data tools and we figured we give RapidMinder Studio a shot as one of our employees had experience with it, and when compared to some of the other tools that we used it was the best fit among the test group that we used. Overall it was a little more fluid and user-friendly.
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    Microsoft
    [Microsoft] SQL Server has a much better community and professional support and is overall just a more reliable system with Microsoft behind it. I've used MySQL in the past and SQL Server has just become more comfortable for me and is my go to RDBMS.
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    Scalability
    Altair Engineering, Inc.
    No answers on this topic
    Microsoft
    SQL server does handle growing demands of a mid sized company.
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    Return on Investment
    Altair Engineering, Inc.
    • Thanks to the patters that RapidMiner has detected, we have been able to follow clues in the right direction, both for the Protein Interaction Network Analysis and for the Epilepsy Research
    • Students and participants of the machine learning workshops have learned about this technology and about the tool
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    Microsoft
    • Increased accuracy - We went from multiple users having different versions of an Excel spreadsheet to a single source of truth for our reporting.
    • Increased Efficiency - We can now generate reports at any time from a single source rather than multiple users spending their time collating data and generating reports.
    • Improved Security - Enterprise level security on a dedicated server rather than financial files on multiple laptop hard drives.
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