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."The technical support is good."
"Databricks' most valuable feature is the data transformation through PySpark."
"We can scale the product."
"Databricks helps crunch petabytes of data in a very short period of time."
"The time travel feature is the solution's most valuable aspect."
"It's easy to increase performance as required."
"The solution is built from Spark and has integration with MLflow, which is important for our use case."
"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 important feature is the way it handles ad hoc queries and provides formatted reports."
"We are embedding multimedia content in our apps... You can embed streaming video from websites, or you can host the video files on your internal media servers. The video is clear, absolutely."
"With all the APIs it's very scalable."
"It is scalable and integration-friendly."
"We use MicroStrategy as an integrated solution with some of their other CRM type applications."
"Visual Insight gives you the capability of doing self-service analytics. This has been the most powerful and valuable feature."
"It keeps BI in the hands of everyone, rather than a developer or an analyst."
"Technical support has sent us to rapid response before, when we really needed them."
"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."
"Pricing is one of the things that could be improved."
"The integration and query capabilities can be improved."
"The connectivity with various BI tools could be improved, specifically the performance and real time integration."
"In the next release, I would like to see more optimization features."
"Generative AI is catching up in areas like data governance and enterprise flavor. Hence, these are places where Databricks has to be faster."
"Databricks is an analytics platform. It should offer more data science. It should have more features for data scientists to work with."
"Databricks is not geared towards the end-user, but rather it is for data engineers or data scientists."
"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."
"They need to improve the web."
"I would like to see more Writeback capabilities that would allow our IT department not to be worried about the wild, Wild West of Writeback."
"There are a lot of offerings, and we are not fully using everything to its advantage."
"Sometimes you can do something in reports, but you cannot do the same thing in documents."
"Needs more visual essence and connectors for the ecosystems, which would be easy to use."
"The problem is the way that their metrics are designed. It can be difficult to understand what you're actually looking at. Then when you're comparing a document against the VI, you can't actually do that properly. So there are components, and there is a huge learning curve in the Enterprise Manager space. I think it would benefit them greatly if they were to exercise a significant amount of research and development in that space."
"The online community page of the product is an area of concern where improvements are required."
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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