Databricks Lakehouse Platform

Databricks Lakehouse Platform

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Databricks Lakehouse Platform (Unified Analytics Platform)

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Recent Reviews

Databricks--a good all-rounder

9 out of 10
May 28, 2021
We use Databricks Lakehouse Platform (Unified Analytics Platform) in our ETL process (data loading) to perform transformations and to …
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Verified User
Professional

Databricks for modern day ETL

9 out of 10
January 31, 2019
Data from APIs is streamed into our One Lake environment. This one lake is S3 on AWS.
Once this raw data is on S3, we use Databricks to …
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Verified User
Team Lead

Databricks Review

9 out of 10
August 22, 2018
We leverage Databricks (DB) to run Big Data workloads. Primarily we build a Jar and attach to DB. We do not leverage the notebooks except …
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Director

Databricks Review

6 out of 10
September 15, 2017
Across whole organization.

[It's] Used by self-service analysts to quickly do analysis
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Standard

$0.07

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Per DBU

Premium

$0.10

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Per DBU

Enterprise

$0.13

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  • No setup fee

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Product Details

What is Databricks Lakehouse Platform?

Databricks in San Francisco offers the Databricks Lakehouse Platform (formerly the Unified Analytics Platform), a data science platform and Apache Spark cluster manager. The Databricks Unified Data Service aims to provide a reliable and scalable platform for data pipelines, data lakes, and data platforms. Users can manage full data journey, to ingest, process, store, and expose data throughout an organization. Its Data Science Workspace is a collaborative environment for practitioners to run all analytic processes in one place, and manage ML models across the full lifecycle. The Machine Learning Runtime (MLR) provides data scientists and ML practitioners with scalable clusters that include popular frameworks, built-in AutoML and optimizations.

Databricks Lakehouse Platform Technical Details

Deployment TypesSaaS
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationNo

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What is Databricks Lakehouse Platform?

Databricks in San Francisco offers the Databricks Lakehouse Platform (formerly the Unified Analytics Platform), a data science platform and Apache Spark cluster manager. The Databricks Unified Data Service aims to provide a reliable and scalable platform for data pipelines, data lakes, and data platforms. Users can manage full data journey, to ingest, process, store, and expose data throughout an organization. Its Data Science Workspace is a collaborative environment for practitioners to run all analytic processes in one place, and manage ML models across the full lifecycle. The Machine Learning Runtime (MLR) provides data scientists and ML practitioners with scalable clusters that include popular frameworks, built-in AutoML and optimizations.

What is Databricks Lakehouse Platform's best feature?

Reviewers rate Usability highest, with a score of 9.

Who uses Databricks Lakehouse Platform?

The most common users of Databricks Lakehouse Platform are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees) and the Information Technology & Services industry.

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7.5
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Professional Services (1)

10.0
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May 15, 2022

Databricks Lakehouse Platform for all your analytics requirements

Verified User
Engineer in Engineering
Computer Software Company, 1001-5000 employees
Score 8 out of 10
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Likelihood to Recommend

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.
February 08, 2022

Best in the industry

Jonatan Bouchard | TrustRadius Reviewer
Jonatan Bouchard
Director Data Science
CN (Transportation/Trucking/Railroad, 10,001+ employees)
Score 9 out of 10
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Likelihood to Recommend

Currently the best Data Science tool for a large-scale company that needs strong tech support once and a while. The performance and the connectivity/integration with a large bread of tools and platform is also important when you don't want to change all your stack. DataBricks is a great non-drage and drops tool for real Data Scientist that knows their things.
November 09, 2021

The wonders of all your data analysis in one place

Verified User
Manager in Product Management
Financial Services Company, 201-500 employees
Score 8 out of 10
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Likelihood to Recommend

I reckon is an amazing platform for users with a certain level of expertise for designing experiments and delivering a deep dive analysis that requires execution of highly complex queries, also it is very useful when it comes to cross company shared workspaces for unified comprehension of the data.

it is less appropriate for users who don't have full knowledge of the tables they are going to query on and need more support on the data, since the platform doesn't give an option to see what are the fields in a table before even querying it
August 13, 2021

Positive review for Databricks Lakehouse Platform

Verified User
Analyst in Marketing
Marketing & Advertising Company, 5001-10,000 employees
Score 9 out of 10
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Likelihood to Recommend

Databricks is great for beginner as well as advanced coders. The interface is extremely user-friendly and the learning curve is quite short. It is well suited for automation where we can have scripts running late at night when the load is less and wake up to an email notification of success or failure. It is also well suited for writing codes that require the use of multiple languages (in some cases of data modeling)

The ability to store temporary/permanent tables on data lakes is a fabulous feature as well. PySpark is an excellent language to learn and it works really fast with large datasets.
July 12, 2021

Data for insights

GM
Gilrod Maerina
Analyst
Riverbed Technology (Internet, 1001-5000 employees)
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
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Review Source

Likelihood to Recommend

[Databricks Lakehouse Platform (Unified Analytics Platform)] makes the power of Spark accessible. Databricks's proactive and customer-centric service. It is a highly adaptable solution for data engineering, data science, and AI. Load times are not consistent and no ability to restrict data access to specific users or groups.
July 07, 2021

Databricks Lakehouse is modern solutions for current big data problems

Surendranatha Reddy Chappidi | TrustRadius Reviewer
Surendranatha Reddy Chappidi
Senior Data Engineer
A.P. Moller - Maersk (Logistics & Supply Chain, 10,001+ employees)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Review Source

Likelihood to Recommend

Databricks Lakehouse platform is well suited for below use cases :
1. Process different types of data sources like structured data, semi structured data and unstructured data.
2. Process data different data sources like RDBMS, REST APIs, File servers, IoT sensors.
3. Provide support for Updates, Deletes, schema evaluation

Databricks Lakehouse platform is not well suited for below usecases :
1. Less data volume and doesn't have analytics requirements
2. Developers doesn't have skill set on spark and Hive


May 28, 2021

Databricks--a good all-rounder

Verified User
Professional in Information Technology
Information Technology & Services Company, 201-500 employees
Score 9 out of 10
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Review Source

Likelihood to Recommend

Databricks Lakehouse Platform (Unified Analytics Platform) can be used to process raw data from any system like IoT, structured, and unstructured data sources. Since it supports Pyspark and Scala to do data processing, it can do any complex business transformation very easily. Also, the Databricks Lakehouse Platform (Unified Analytics Platform) architecture is very similar to Big Data; it can process huge datasets from Hadoop systems and machine learning models in minutes.
May 15, 2021

Great for both ad-hoc analyzes and scheduled jobs

EO
Ender Ortak
Senior Data Analyst
Ford Otosan (Automotive, 10,001+ employees)
Score 8 out of 10
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Likelihood to Recommend

It is great for both ad-hoc analyzes and scheduled jobs. It supports most of the cloud storage technologies and provides an easy to use API to connect with them. Clusters can be auto scaled with the load, and you can also create temporary clusters for job runs, which cost less compared to all purpose clusters.
January 31, 2019

Databricks for modern day ETL

Verified User
Team Lead in Engineering
Financial Services Company, 10,001+ employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
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Review Source

Likelihood to Recommend

Databricks has helped my teams write PySpark and Spark SQL jobs and test them out before formally integrating them in Spark jobs. Through Databricks we can create parquet and JSON output files. Datamodelers and scientists who are not very good with coding can get good insight into the data using the notebooks that can be developed by the engineers.
August 22, 2018

Databricks provides a cost effective end to end solution for Enterprise analytics

Verified User
Strategist in Engineering
Computer Hardware Company, 10,001+ employees
Score 9 out of 10
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Review Source

Likelihood to Recommend

Great end to end analytics solution on AWS or Azure. Databricks continues to grow based on customer feedback. Just like everyone in the industry, they are focused on Machine Learning, but they also understand a complete solution is needed.
March 28, 2018

If you want to be an effective ML learner, use Databricks

Ann Le | TrustRadius Reviewer
Ann Le
Freelance Translator
ZOO Digital Group plc (Entertainment, 501-1000 employees)
Score 7 out of 10
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Likelihood to Recommend

Right now, I am learning about Spark ML and general machine learning concepts. It is a good practice space to run different Spark ML codes. Databricks does provide valid errors and detailed descriptions of where I can fix my code. And to run a set of codes is very easy to maneuver around. If you do not know how to code, it might be less appropriate to use Databricks. But then again, they do have a large community where help can be found.
September 15, 2017

Databricks Review

Verified User
Director in Engineering
Financial Services Company, 10,001+ employees
Score 6 out of 10
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Likelihood to Recommend

When you have analysts that are not cloud-savvy, this tool helps them quickly run code and not be overwhelmed by infrastructure and optimization. [It's] Less appropriate in production deployments.