We performed a comparison between Databricks and PubSub+ Event Broker based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Streaming Analytics solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It is a cost-effective solution."
"I like cloud scalability and data access for any type of user."
"The solution's features are fantastic and include interactive clusters that perform at top speed when compared to other solutions."
"I like the ability to use workspaces with other colleagues because you can work together even without seeing the other team's job."
"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."
"The setup is quite easy."
"The solution is easy to use and has a quick start-up time due to being on the cloud."
"The solution is very easy to use."
"We like the seamless flexibility in protocol exchange offering without writing a code."
"As of now, the most valuable aspects are the topic-based subscription and the fanout exchange that we are using."
"In my assessment of Solace against other products — as I was responsible for evaluating various products and bringing the right tool into companies in the past — I worked with multiple platforms like RabbitMQ, Confluent, Kafka, and various other tools in the market. But I found the event mesh capability to be a very interesting as well as fulfilling capability, towards what we want to achieve from a digital-integration-strategy point of view... It's distributed, yet it is intelligently connected. It can also span and I can plug and play any number of brokers into the event mesh, so it's a great deal. That's a differentiator."
"The valuable feature of PubSub+ Event Broker is the speed of processing, publishing, and consumption."
"The topic hierarchy is pretty flexible. Once you have the subject defined just about anybody who knows Java can come onboard. The APIs are all there."
"When we went to add another installation in our private cloud, it was easy. We received support from Solace and the install was seamless with no issues."
"One of the main reasons for using PubSub+ is that it is a proper event manager that can handle events in a reactive way."
"The event portal and the diversity of deployment options in a hybrid landscape are the most valuable features."
"The product cannot be integrated with a popular coding IDE."
"The connectivity with various BI tools could be improved, specifically the performance and real time integration."
"There is room for improvement in visualization."
"The pricing of Databricks could be cheaper."
"I have had some issues with some of the Spark clusters running on Databricks, where the Spark runtime and clusters go up and down, which is an area for improvement."
"Would be helpful to have additional licensing options."
"The product should provide more advanced features in future releases."
"Databricks may not be as easy to use as other tools, but if you simplify a tool too much, it won't have the flexibility to go in-depth. Databricks is completely in the programmer's hands. I prefer flexibility rather than simplicity."
"The section on observability pertains to understanding the functioning of an event crash. Instead of focusing on how the crash occurs, attention is given to the observable aspects, such as a memory pipeline where one person pushes messages and another reads them. However, this pipeline often encounters issues, such as the reader being unavailable, causing the system to become stuck and preventing the messages from moving forward. This can lead to the pipeline being permanently stalled."
"The product should allow third-party agents to be installed. Currently, it is quite proprietary."
"Some of the feature's gaps with some of the open-source vendors have been closed in a lot of ways. Being more agile and addressing those earlier could be an area for improvement."
"We've pointed out some things with the DMR piece, the event mesh, in edge cases where we could see a problem. Something like 99 percent of users wouldn't ever see this problem, but it has to do with if you get multiple bad clients sending data over a WAN, for example. That could then impact other clients."
"For improvements, I would suggest increasing the max payload size to a limit of 100MB or more. The current max payload size is limited to 5MB."
"One of the areas of improvement would be if we could tell the story a bit better about what an event mesh does or why an event mesh is foundational to a large enterprise that has a wide diversity of applications that are homegrown and a small number off the shelf."
"The ease of management could be approved. The GUI is very good, but to configure and manage these devices programmatically in the software version is not easy. For example, if I would like to spin up a new software broker, then I could in theory use the API, but it would require a considerable amount of development effort to do so. There should be a tool, or something that Solace supports, that we could use for this, e.g., a platform like Terraform where we could use infrastructure as code to configure our source appliances."
"The integrations could improve in PubSub+ Event Broker."
Databricks is ranked 2nd in Streaming Analytics with 78 reviews while PubSub+ Event Broker is ranked 10th in Streaming Analytics with 15 reviews. Databricks is rated 8.2, while PubSub+ Event Broker is rated 8.6. 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 PubSub+ Event Broker writes "Event life cycle management changes the way a designer or architect will design a topic and discover what is available". Databricks is most compared with Amazon SageMaker, Informatica PowerCenter, Dataiku Data Science Studio, Microsoft Azure Machine Learning Studio and Dremio, whereas PubSub+ Event Broker is most compared with Apache Kafka, IBM MQ, ActiveMQ and VMware RabbitMQ. See our Databricks vs. PubSub+ Event Broker report.
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