We performed a comparison between Birst and Databricks based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Tableau, Oracle and others in Reporting."Dashboards and self-service reports. These are widely used by customers in the EPM domain."
"It's very simple to use Databricks Apache Spark."
"It can send out large data amounts."
"The initial setup is pretty easy."
"The integration with Python and the notebooks really helps."
"Imageflow is a visual tool that helps make it easier for business people to understand complex workflows."
"The most valuable feature of Databricks is the integration with Microsoft Azure."
"Databricks makes it really easy to use a number of technologies to do data analysis. In terms of languages, we can use Scala, Python, and SQL. Databricks enables you to run very large queries, at a massive scale, within really good timeframes."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to use SQL directly with Databricks."
"Customer support takes lot of time to get a solution."
"I would like to see the integration between Databricks and MLflow improved. It is quite hard to train multiple models in parallel in the distributed fashions. You hit rate limits on the clients very fast."
"The tool should improve its integration with other products."
"The product should provide more advanced features in future releases."
"Databricks has a lack of debuggers, and it would be good to see more components."
"The product should incorporate more learning aspects. It needs to have a free trial version that the team can practice."
"There is room for improvement in the documentation of processes and how it works."
"Support for Microsoft technology and the compatibility with the .NET framework is somewhat missing."
"It would be very helpful if Databricks could integrate with platforms in addition to Azure."
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Birst is ranked 32nd in Reporting while Databricks is ranked 1st in Data Science Platforms with 78 reviews. Birst is rated 7.4, while Databricks is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Birst writes "The dashboards and Visualizer are valuable". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Databricks writes "A nice interface with good features for turning off clusters to save on computing". Birst is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, ThoughtSpot and Alteryx, whereas Databricks is most compared with Amazon SageMaker, Informatica PowerCenter, Dataiku Data Science Studio, Microsoft Azure Machine Learning Studio and Dremio.
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