We performed a comparison between Alteryx and Databricks based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Databricks has a slight edge in this comparison. It received better marks in the pricing category than Alteryx did.
"Alteryx has made us more agile and increased the speed and effectiveness of decision making."
"The philosophy of the citizen data scientist is the key piece, which means the no-code analytics capability. This is the feature that attracted us the most."
"Alteryx is a simple and easy-to-use solution."
"I think the most valuable feature for Alteryx in a health facility is that it permits cleaning, organizing, and merging of databases such as Excel and Access."
"Alteryx speeds up the time to obtain business answers/insights on data."
"The connectors are a very good feature."
"The solution has a very strong community that is involved in the product. It helps make the usage easier and helps us find answers to our questions."
"Alteryx effectively visualizes the flow of data and what happens at each stage. I also like that it's a no-code solution. I also like that you can troubleshoot certain parts of the workflow by putting them in a sandbox."
"Databricks covers end-to-end data analytics workflow in one platform, this is the best feature of the solution."
"I like how easy it is to share your notebook with others. You can give people permission to read or edit. I think that's a great feature. You can also pull in code from GitHub pretty easily. I didn't use it that often, but I think that's a cool feature."
"Databricks has a scalable Spark cluster creation process. The creators of Databricks are also the creators of Spark, and they are the industry leaders in terms of performance."
"Can cut across the entire ecosystem of open source technology to give an extra level of getting the transformatory process of the data."
"Ability to work collaboratively without having to worry about the infrastructure."
"The setup was straightforward."
"The solution is easy to use and has a quick start-up time due to being on the cloud."
"Databricks' most valuable features are the workspace and notebooks. Its integration, interface, and documentation are also good."
"The scalability worries me a lot at the moment because the cost of the solution is high and it is not growing considerably. Unfortunately, we started during early COVID times and because of the economic downturn, all the cost cuttings, and everything, it is not growing as expected."
"There are a few imputation techniques which they really need to include."
"They can provide some pre-built tools for predictive analytics instead of us having to build all the tools. It should also be improved from the visualization aspect. It should have better visualization capabilities. There are tools out there that have better visualization capabilities, which Alteryx is lacking currently."
"The gallery could improve in Alteryx. Additionally, if there was a Conditional Join feature it would be beneficial. Since I do not have this feature I have to use Python scripts."
"In the database, it should be more functional and connect to more big data, especially using IPI."
"The workflow and pipeline need to improve."
"The technical support could have a little bit of improvement."
"From a commercial standpoint, more options should be available for pricing. The licensing model needs to be specific."
"Databricks is an analytics platform. It should offer more data science. It should have more features for data scientists to work with."
"The integration features could be more interesting, more involved."
"Databricks is not geared towards the end-user, but rather it is for data engineers or data scientists."
"I would like it if Databricks adopted an interface more like R Studio. When I create a data frame or a table, R Studio provides a preview of the data. In R Studio, I can see that it created a table with so many columns or rows. Then I can click on it and open a preview of that data."
"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 product could be improved by offering an expansion of their visualization capabilities, which currently assists in development in their notebook environment."
"Pricing is one of the things that could be improved."
"When I used the support, I had communication problems because of the language barrier with the agent. The accent was difficult to understand."
Alteryx is ranked 3rd in Data Science Platforms with 74 reviews while Databricks is ranked 1st in Data Science Platforms with 78 reviews. Alteryx is rated 8.4, while Databricks is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Alteryx writes "Feature-rich ETL that condenses a number of functions into one tool". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Databricks writes "A nice interface with good features for turning off clusters to save on computing". Alteryx is most compared with KNIME, Dataiku, RapidMiner, Microsoft Power BI and Qlik Sense, whereas Databricks is most compared with Amazon SageMaker, Informatica PowerCenter, Dataiku, Microsoft Azure Machine Learning Studio and Apache Flink. See our Alteryx vs. Databricks report.
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