We performed a comparison between Databricks and TIBCO Spotfire based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Databricks, Microsoft, Alteryx and others in Data Science Platforms."The technical support is good."
"Databricks integrates well with other solutions."
"This solution offers a lake house data concept that we have found exciting. We are able to have a large amount of data in a data lake and can manage all relational activities."
"Automation with Databricks is very easy when using the API."
"The load distribution capabilities are good, and you can perform data processing tasks very quickly."
"I work in the data science field and I found Databricks to be very useful."
"Databricks is based on a Spark cluster and it is fast. Performance-wise, it is great."
"The ease of use and its accessibility are valuable."
"The solution is an affordable one."
"It’s stable and straightforward."
"This solution allows us to integrate data from across all client departments, for effective reporting via a single dashboard."
"The most valuable features of TIBCO Spotfire are visualization. It's very nice, clear, and, flexible. You can analyze many data types and the user interface is very good."
"R and automation services."
"TIBCO Spotfire is easy to use. We initiated Spotfire as POC, with support from a tech team based in South Africa. While they assisted with the setup, we conducted the POC ourselves."
"Spotfire is excellent for scientific applications, especially because of its integration with RNG."
"From a scalability standpoint, I would say it's pretty fantastic."
"Databricks' performance when serving the data to an analytics tool isn't as good as Snowflake's."
"There should be better integration with other platforms."
"Support for Microsoft technology and the compatibility with the .NET framework is somewhat missing."
"Pricing is one of the things that could be improved."
"CI/CD needs additional leverage and support."
"The connectivity with various BI tools could be improved, specifically the performance and real time integration."
"Databricks would benefit from enhanced metrics and tighter integration with Azure's diagnostics."
"The solution could be improved by adding a feature that would make it more user-friendly for our team. The feature is simple, but it would be useful. Currently, our team is more familiar with the language R, but Databricks requires the use of Jupyter Notebooks which primarily supports Python. We have tried using RStudio, but it is not a fully integrated solution. To fully utilize Databricks, we have to use the Jupyter interface. One feature that would make it easier for our team to adopt the Jupyter interface would be the ability to select a specific variable or line of code and execute it within a cell. This feature is available in other Jupyter Notebooks outside of Databricks and in our own IDE, but it is not currently available within Databricks. If this feature were added, it would make the transition to using Databricks much smoother for our team."
"Compared to competitors, the UI is quite dated."
"The data compression has room for improvement."
"We would like to see some improvement in the default properties of the solution, so that there is less need for us to spend our time coding."
"I would like more easy-to-implement analytical algorithms. At the moment they include things like forecasts and regressions. They need to add a lot more of these types of things to the product because not everyone is a data scientist."
"The number of charts available out of the box in Spotfire can be enhanced."
"The design of the UI could be improved."
"When you do the data loading, it is slow."
"Print capability and trigger-based events."
Databricks is ranked 1st in Data Science Platforms with 78 reviews while TIBCO Spotfire is ranked 10th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 67 reviews. Databricks is rated 8.2, while TIBCO Spotfire is rated 8.4. 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 TIBCO Spotfire writes "Empowers us to extract insights and provide valuable business analytics to support decision-making within our organization". Databricks is most compared with Amazon SageMaker, Informatica PowerCenter, Dataiku, Dremio and Microsoft Azure Machine Learning Studio, whereas TIBCO Spotfire is most compared with Tableau, Microsoft Power BI, QlikView, Qlik Sense and TIBCO BusinessWorks.
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