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 gives you the flexibility of using several programming languages independently or in combination to build models."
"What I like about Databricks is that it's one of the most popular platforms that give access to folks who are trying not just to do exploratory work on the data but also go ahead and build advanced modeling and machine learning on top of that."
"Databricks is based on a Spark cluster and it is fast. Performance-wise, it is great."
"The initial setup phase of Databricks was good."
"Databricks is a scalable solution. It is the largest advantage of the solution."
"The time travel feature is the solution's most valuable aspect."
"Easy to use and requires minimal coding and customizations."
"The most valuable feature of Databricks is the integration of the data warehouse and data lake, and the development of the lake house. Additionally, it integrates well with Spark for processing data in production."
"It is very stable."
"We've made it an open BI platform, so that all our business analysts can build their own dashboards and Dossiers."
"Technical support is knowledgeable. The right person gets back to us whenever we email them."
"The ability to create aesthetically pleasing information by providing dashboards."
"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 hyperintelligence is the most valuable feature."
"I like the user interface and the experience has been great."
"It has landing pages, and that makes life easy for exhibiting things."
"The initial setup is difficult."
"There are no direct connectors — they are very limited."
"The stability of the clusters or the instances of Databricks would be better if it was a much more stable environment. We've had issues with crashes."
"Databricks could improve in some of its functionality."
"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."
"There could be more support for automated machine learning in the database. I would like to see more ways to do analysis so that the reporting is more understandable."
"The solution has some scalability and integration limitations when consolidating legacy systems."
"Generative AI is catching up in areas like data governance and enterprise flavor. Hence, these are places where Databricks has to be faster."
"I would like to see the enterprise version available in a demo or as a trial version."
"The learning curve is quite steep."
"Needs more visual essence and connectors for the ecosystems, which would be easy to use."
"When we come to them with a problem, they might know more of a generalized solution, but not one targeted to our industry."
"MicroStrategy lacks that community support. You're either stuck figuring things out yourself or paying expensive fees to MicroStrategy consultants for help."
"MicroStrategy should become more user friendly. It should behave more like Tableau."
"Needs tighter mapping integration."
"They should give proper industry-based tutorials so that one can learn it easily and implement it based on the requirements. They should give more MMP files so that we can import a whole project altogether and learn from that project."
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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