We performed a comparison between Databricks and Oracle OBIEE based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Databricks, Microsoft, Alteryx and others in Data Science Platforms."Specifically for data science and data analytics purposes, it can handle large amounts of data in less time. I can compare it with Teradata. If a job takes five hours with Teradata databases, Databricks can complete it in around three to three and a half hours."
"Databricks covers end-to-end data analytics workflow in one platform, this is the best feature of the solution."
"Easy to use and requires minimal coding and customizations."
"Databricks is hosted on the cloud. It is very easy to collaborate with other team members who are working on it. It is production-ready code, and scheduling the jobs is easy."
"I work in the data science field and I found Databricks to be very useful."
"The fast data loading process and data storage capabilities are great."
"The setup is quite easy."
"The solution is very easy to use."
"The “Business Model & Mapping” layer in the Administration Tool, because the maintenance and evolution processes are greatly facilitated."
"They are introducing AI. There are good forecasting features and machine learning."
"The most valuable feature of Oracle OBIEE is the security of the solution."
"They were reasonable in terms of price."
"In terms of features, everything is good. It is also stable and scalable."
"I like the scheduling feature. It has an inbuilt scheduler which is very good, and it allows us to create agents, and those agents can be scheduled. It's quite flexible in that respect and goes into our IT infrastructure. The outputs are sent encrypted to various endpoints. Some are internal, and some are our clients, and it's encrypted at a high level. I do find Oracle OBIEE flexible. If there is stuff that's not in your model or schema, it's very flexible to create SQL scripts and create the data you want. It's quite nice to create a dashboard in OBIEE, and that's pretty straightforward in the way you drag and drop everything. You can create sections, and you can add elements to your page. That bit of the interface is relatively straightforward."
"The setup isn't too difficult."
"The visualization is very good."
"I have seen better user interfaces, so that is something that can be improved."
"Pricing is one of the things that could be improved."
"Would be helpful to have additional licensing options."
"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 should be better integration with other platforms."
"In the next release, I would like to see more optimization features."
"The integration and query capabilities can be improved."
"The product could be improved by offering an expansion of their visualization capabilities, which currently assists in development in their notebook environment."
"The ability to migrate from one version to another, such as doing so from version 11 to an upgraded 12 of Oracle business environment, can be difficult."
"Customer service/technical support gets five out of 10. Sometimes good, sometimes bad."
"The pricing model could be improved. Right now, it's quite confusing. Many customers have this feeling that it's a super-expensive option."
"They should make the dashboard more intuitive."
"Supply chain and finance."
"One feature I would definitely like to see is the ability to provide the in-memory data. Oracle might have some plugins but, as of now, that feature isn't available out-of-the-box. You might have to purchase that feature."
"Oracle OBIEE only displays KPIs, but it does not include strategic objectives or display risk in a strategic map."
"One significant improvement is the need for simplification. The set up could be more intuitive. An enterprise setup with HA and DR are pretty complex and to get a robust solution one has to play around with Real Application Cluster data sources and FAN notifications as well as WebLogic clustering and external load balancers. SSO also is not that simple to set up especially if you want all your Oracle systems to use the same SSO solution, i.e., no cheating with direct LDAP connectivity."
Databricks is ranked 1st in Data Science Platforms with 78 reviews while Oracle OBIEE is ranked 3rd in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 154 reviews. Databricks is rated 8.2, while Oracle OBIEE is rated 7.8. 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 Oracle OBIEE writes "A solution that is easily accessible, scalable and requires a straightforward initial setup process to get started". Databricks is most compared with Amazon SageMaker, Informatica PowerCenter, Dataiku, Dremio and Microsoft Azure Machine Learning Studio, whereas Oracle OBIEE is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, IBM Cognos, SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform, Tableau and Oracle Analytics Cloud.
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