We performed a comparison between Databricks and MicroStrategy based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Databricks, Microsoft, Alteryx and others in Data Science Platforms."Databricks' most valuable features are the workspace and notebooks. Its integration, interface, and documentation are also good."
"There are good features for turning off clusters."
"The setup is quite easy."
"The solution offers a free community version."
"The initial setup is pretty easy."
"When we have a huge volume of data that we want to process with speed, velocity, and volume, we go through Databricks."
"The integration with Python and the notebooks really helps."
"I work in the data science field and I found Databricks to be very useful."
"It is very stable."
"The ability to integrate with PPT is another plus. The platform's ability to write back data directly to the database is also good."
"I have never had any problems with the stability."
"The single stack solution will always be more profitable, scalable, and elastic for organizational needs."
"Has a great semantic layer."
"Dossiers are going to change the name of the game for us. We want to be able to have the executive committee go into a meeting and tell a story. We want them to tell us a story, not us."
"We prefer having the analytic capabilities in a single platform, like MicroStrategy provides, because it is easier. The customer gets used to one type of tool, then sticks with it."
"We have been using it mostly for grid reports and its exporting features."
"In the future, I would like to see Data Lake support. That is something that I'm looking forward to."
"Databricks can improve by making the documentation better."
"There is room for improvement in visualization."
"It would be better if it were faster. It can be slow, and it can be super fast for big data. But for small data, sometimes there is a sub-second response, which can be considered slow. In the next release, I would like to have automatic creation of APIs because they don't have it at the moment, and I spend a lot of time building them."
"Databricks has a lack of debuggers, and it would be good to see more components."
"The integration and query capabilities can be improved."
"Databricks would have more collaborative features than it has. It should have some more customization for the jobs."
"I would like to see more documentation in terms of how an end-user could use it, and users like me can easily try it and implement use cases."
"There needs to be better visualization."
"The solution lacks good visualization. They should work on the user interface to make it more slick and modern."
"Lacks decent visualization and the process for creating new objects needs to be simplified."
"We did have issues with stability, and that was because we were co-located with another business unit, and we outgrew them on the unit. So we had to get to a separate physical instance."
"If there are some advanced visualization features - maybe I'm not aware of them - but if there were a Vitara which could work on top of MicroStrategy, it would make sense for MicroStrategy to have that within their own library. So they should add more visualizations to the library."
"Sometimes you can do something in reports, but you cannot do the same thing in documents."
"Currently, the client view looks completely different depending on what you are building."
"MicroStrategy needs to do some more development to make the platform easier to use. It's a complicated platform that requires a lot of skill to effectively utilize. So they could work on reducing the complexity to make it more accessible for a broader community of people."
Databricks is ranked 1st in Data Science Platforms with 78 reviews while MicroStrategy is ranked 8th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 155 reviews. Databricks is rated 8.2, while MicroStrategy is rated 8.2. 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 MicroStrategy writes "A robust solution for powerful data analytics". Databricks is most compared with Amazon SageMaker, Informatica PowerCenter, Dataiku, Microsoft Azure Machine Learning Studio and Dremio, whereas MicroStrategy is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Tableau, IBM Cognos, SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform and QlikView.
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