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 has helped us have a good presence in data."
"Automation with Databricks is very easy when using the API."
"I like the ability to use workspaces with other colleagues because you can work together even without seeing the other team's job."
"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."
"It is fast, it's scalable, and it does the job it needs to do."
"The solution's features are fantastic and include interactive clusters that perform at top speed when compared to other solutions."
"Databricks gives you the flexibility of using several programming languages independently or in combination to build models."
"The main features of the solution are efficiency."
"Building apps is easy. You just drag in your data, and then you drag in all the elements that you want on your app. It's drag and drop design, and then you can customize your visuals. They make it all easy with plug and play widgets."
"It is a good tool to help our customers visually see loads of data."
"I have never had any problems with the stability."
"The whole repository side of things is beneficial because you develop it once, and you can use it anywhere, in the Enterprise grade."
"It has had a direct impact on bottomline improvements."
"I like that they're trying to incorporate Developer into Workstation and Desktop into Workstation, so you get the all-in-one encompassing, highly technical Developer Workstation where you can do the VI, you can do the Dossier."
"The feature I found most valuable is the drop and drag functionality available."
"It scales well. It used to have only a max of four I-servers, but I think recently, somewhere in version 10, they doubled that, so you can have eight I-servers now."
"The solution has some scalability and integration limitations when consolidating legacy systems."
"The Databricks cluster can be improved."
"Doesn't provide a lot of credits or trial options."
"Databricks has added some alerts and query functionality into their SQL persona, but the whole SQL persona, which is like a role, needs a lot of development. The alerts are not very flexible, and the query interface itself is not as polished as the notebook interface that is used through the data science and machine learning persona. It is clunky at present."
"Pricing is one of the things that could be improved."
"Databricks would have more collaborative features than it has. It should have some more customization for the jobs."
"Databricks requires writing code in Python or SQL, so if you're a good programmer then you can use Databricks."
"Can be improved by including drag-and-drop features."
"If you do not learn the ins or outs, it can be a difficult tool to use. You could do a PoC and get enough out of it to be able to use it. However, when it comes to administering it, you definitely need the training."
"I would like to see more integration."
"The solution has a very non-logical user usage part. It has a library mode where users can access all the data, reports, and dashboards, but they also can be accessed from a platform. They have to log into the platform. The user experience is confusing for the users. MicroStrategy needs to define which one they will use. Some functionality isn’t available in library mode but is available in the portal. There should be Office integration. For example, if I do a presentation, then I should be able to add a chart to my presentation."
"There needs to be better visualization."
"It needs row-level security, column-level security, on attributes. I want to be able to handle full-scale security model from the semantic layer, flat out."
"There are a lot of offerings, and we are not fully using everything to its advantage."
"It needs better visualizations."
"In the developer, there are things that you able to do in a document or a report that you are not able to do in the Dossier."
Databricks is ranked 1st in Data Science Platforms with 78 reviews while MicroStrategy is ranked 8th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 156 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, Dremio and Microsoft Azure Machine Learning Studio, whereas MicroStrategy is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Tableau, IBM Cognos, SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform and SAP Analytics Cloud.
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