We performed a comparison between Databricks and IBM Cognos based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Databricks, Microsoft, Alteryx and others in Data Science Platforms."The fast data loading process and data storage capabilities are great."
"Databricks makes it really easy to use a number of technologies to do data analysis. In terms of languages, we can use Scala, Python, and SQL. Databricks enables you to run very large queries, at a massive scale, within really good timeframes."
"It's easy to increase performance as required."
"The solution's features are fantastic and include interactive clusters that perform at top speed when compared to other solutions."
"Databricks has improved my organization by allowing us to transform data from sources to a different format and feed that to the analytics, business intelligence, and reporting teams. This tool makes it easy to do those kinds of things."
"The most valuable aspect of the solution is its notebook. It's quite convenient to use, both terms of the research and the development and also the final deployment, I can just declare the spark jobs by the load tables. It's quite convenient."
"The solution is an impressive tool for data migration and integration."
"We have the ability to scale, collaborate and do machine learning."
"Mapbox integration for geospatial analytics down to longitude/latitude layers."
"The Report Studio that is aimed at professional report writers."
"The initial setup is quite straightforward."
"The dashboarding offered by this solution is very valuable to us."
"Cognos is the best application with dashboards,batch reporting, jobs, events and ad-hoc reporting for business users."
"The initial setup is very straightforward."
"When it comes to decision-making, the product is very useful and used in many departments since a lot of people prefer the reports to be generated by IBM Cognos."
"I have worked on the features like dashboards and stories, and I do like them a lot."
"I would love an integration in my desktop IDE. For now, I have to code on their webpage."
"There is room for improvement in visualization."
"Databricks' performance when serving the data to an analytics tool isn't as good as Snowflake's."
"Scalability is an area with certain shortcomings. The solution's scalability needs improvement."
"The pricing of Databricks could be cheaper."
"Pricing is one of the things that could be improved."
"The product should provide more advanced features in future releases."
"Databricks requires writing code in Python or SQL, so if you're a good programmer then you can use Databricks."
"I would like to have predictive and forecasting capabilities in Cognos. It's one thing to do reporting, and another thing to easily predict or forecast certain data points, which is very important for all the clients."
"In terms of what could be improved, I would say, monitoring, monitoring, monitoring. Some improvements in monitoring would be helpful. I'd like to see more monitoring of specific reports and fields. The way the auditing is now is very limited, so I'd like to see more of that - of the monitoring."
"We need more predictive analytical functions, not only diagnostic or decryptic analytics."
"IBM Support can be slow at times, but they can usually deliver in a timely manner."
"The tool needs to improve the connectivity since I see that, at times, there is a need to increase the memory in the database."
"Cognos is quite slow - it's missing the performance of the PowerPlay cubes."
"I don't like that when we use Colab packages, we get less functionality. For example, you can make groups of data with Excel or with the data sets from the packages, but when you use the Colab packages directly, you can only group the data when you analyze it with Analysis Studio. I think Cognos needs to improve more on this functionality."
"There are some small features that are missing. It would be nice if the graphics were better. You can use external sources for charts, but it's quite complex to use and not easy to implement. If you want a new chart, you can download it from multiple tools and implement it into IBM Cognos."
Databricks is ranked 1st in Data Science Platforms with 78 reviews while IBM Cognos is ranked 7th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 132 reviews. Databricks is rated 8.2, while IBM Cognos is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Databricks writes "A nice interface with good features for turning off clusters to save on computing". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM Cognos writes "Improved the quality of our KPIs, while reducing calls to the IT department". Databricks is most compared with Amazon SageMaker, Informatica PowerCenter, Dataiku, Microsoft Azure Machine Learning Studio and Dremio, whereas IBM Cognos is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Oracle OBIEE, Tableau, SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform and Oracle Hyperion.
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