We performed a comparison between Databricks and SAP Analytics Cloud based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Databricks, Microsoft, Alteryx and others in Data Science Platforms."The initial setup is pretty easy."
"The solution is built from Spark and has integration with MLflow, which is important for our use case."
"I like how easy it is to share your notebook with others. You can give people permission to read or edit. I think that's a great feature. You can also pull in code from GitHub pretty easily. I didn't use it that often, but I think that's a cool feature."
"The setup was straightforward."
"It's easy to increase performance as required."
"I like that Databricks is a unified platform that lets you do streaming and batch processing in the same place. You can do analytics, too. They have added something called Databricks SQL Analytics, allowing users to connect to the data lake to perform analytics. Databricks also will enable you to share your data securely. It integrates with your reporting system as well."
"Databricks' Lakehouse architecture has been most useful for us. The data governance has been absolutely efficient in between other kinds of solutions."
"The solution is very easy to use."
"It's many features make it the best in the market."
"One of the most outstanding features is being able to use the dashboard with a touch screen."
"The new Application Design option offers lots of customization options by being able to script in Typescript (similar to Javascript)."
"The solution is quite effective for collaborative planning."
"It is easy to integrate with SAP ERP and BW systems, allowing smooth data transfer and live connections without much development."
"Technical support is helpful."
"Considering the reporting part, I rate the tool a nine out of ten."
"The most valuable feature of the tool is machine learning."
"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."
"This solution only supports queries in SQL and Python, which is a bit limiting."
"The product cannot be integrated with a popular coding IDE."
"The integration features could be more interesting, more involved."
"The pricing of Databricks could be cheaper."
"The data visualization for this solution could be improved. They have started to roll out a data visualization tool inside Databricks but it is in the early stages. It's not comparable to a solution like Power BI, Luca, or Tableau."
"Databricks doesn't offer the use of Python scripts by itself and is not connected to GitHub repositories or anything similar. This is something that is missing. if they could integrate with Git tools it would be an advantage."
"The solution has some scalability and integration limitations when consolidating legacy systems."
"SAP could add more templates to the platform."
"Could have more tabular reporting capabilities."
"However, there are areas of improvement, particularly in terms of visualization. The front-end interface of SAP Analytics Cloud is not as impressive as Tableau and Power BI. The charts in other solutions have a more visually appealing and customizable look, while in SAP Analytics Cloud, there's a lack of alignment between numbers and charts. This graphical aspect, especially concerning charts, is not as satisfactory in SAP Analytics Cloud compared to its counterparts."
"SAP has always had one problem with its products, they make them very closed systems that are difficult to integrate."
"Sometimes there are speed issues with big deletion data."
"The general management of this solution could be improved. The graphics or icons could also be improved to allow them to integrate with other environments on the web."
"They need more support for more languages, Python for example."
"SAP could add some more visualization features to Analytics Cloud, like charts and analytics. I would also like to see some more data cleaning and ad hoc functions added to this solution."
Databricks is ranked 1st in Data Science Platforms with 78 reviews while SAP Analytics Cloud is ranked 5th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 61 reviews. Databricks is rated 8.2, while SAP Analytics Cloud 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 SAP Analytics Cloud writes "Good for reporting but needs to improve its predictive analytics features". Databricks is most compared with Amazon SageMaker, Informatica PowerCenter, Dataiku, Dremio and Microsoft Azure Machine Learning Studio, whereas SAP Analytics Cloud is most compared with SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform, Tableau, IBM Planning Analytics, Microsoft Power BI and Anaplan.
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