We performed a comparison between Alteryx and Databricks based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Databricks has a slight edge in this comparison. It received better marks in the pricing category than Alteryx did.
"The feature that I have found most valuable for Alteryx is its geo-referencing feature, it is very good. I use it a lot, especially for supply chain."
"The filtering is fast, and it provides a search tool that is great."
"The most valuable feature of Alteryx is user-friendliness."
"Technical support is very helpful."
"The value add of Alteryx is the agility for making changes, and speed of deployment."
"The philosophy of the citizen data scientist is the key piece, which means the no-code analytics capability. This is the feature that attracted us the most."
"The tools are built-in. You just plug and play, drag and drop, once you understand how to use the tools, it is easy."
"Good data transformation."
"The Delta Lake data type has been the most useful part of this solution. Delta Lake is an opensource data type and it was implemented and invented by Databricks."
"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."
"Imageflow is a visual tool that helps make it easier for business people to understand complex workflows."
"Ability to work collaboratively without having to worry about the infrastructure."
"We can scale the product."
"I haven't heard about any major stability issues. At this time I feel like it's stable."
"The solution is very easy to use."
"If there is any way to make the learning curve less steep, that would be ideal."
"I'd like to see more artificial intelligence business tools or features in Alteryx."
"I think they should really work on integrating or have a capacity to integrate some algorithmic code. I think that's one of the most important things they need to be doing."
"The technical support could have a little bit of improvement."
"They should work on its pricing."
"The screen when you are looking into your workflows and your ETL processes needs to be improved. You cannot manage it very well."
"There are a few imputation techniques which they really need to include."
"A colleague of mind mentioned that the solution should have more options for the visualization of data."
"If I want to create a Databricks account, I need to have a prior cloud account such as an AWS account or an Azure account. Only then can I create a Databricks account on the cloud. However, if they can make it so that I can still try Databricks even if I don't have a cloud account on AWS and Azure, it would be great. That is, it would be nice if it were possible to create a pseudo account and be provided with a free trial. It is very essential to creating a workforce on Databricks. For example, students or corporate staff can then explore and learn Databricks."
"I believe that this product could be improved by becoming more user-friendly."
"Databricks can improve by making the documentation better."
"We'd like a more visual dashboard for analysis It needs better UI."
"There is room for improvement in visualization."
"The integration features could be more interesting, more involved."
"The product cannot be integrated with a popular coding IDE."
"Anyone who doesn't know SQL may find the product difficult to work with."
Alteryx is ranked 3rd in Data Science Platforms with 74 reviews while Databricks is ranked 1st in Data Science Platforms with 78 reviews. Alteryx is rated 8.4, while Databricks is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Alteryx writes "Feature-rich ETL that condenses a number of functions into one tool". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Databricks writes "A nice interface with good features for turning off clusters to save on computing". Alteryx is most compared with KNIME, Dataiku, RapidMiner, Tableau and Microsoft Power BI, whereas Databricks is most compared with Amazon SageMaker, Informatica PowerCenter, Dataiku, Dremio and Apache Flink. See our Alteryx vs. Databricks report.
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