We performed a comparison between Databricks and Microsoft BI based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Databricks is the winner in this comparison. It is robust, high performing, and received good feedback for its speed.
"The most valuable feature is the Spark cluster which is very fast for heavy loads, big data processing and Pi Spark."
"Its lightweight and fast processing are valuable."
"The solution is easy to use and has a quick start-up time due to being on the cloud."
"I like the ability to use workspaces with other colleagues because you can work together even without seeing the other team's job."
"I work in the data science field and I found Databricks to be very useful."
"We are completely satisfied with the ease of connecting to different sources of data or pocket files in the search"
"Can cut across the entire ecosystem of open source technology to give an extra level of getting the transformatory process of the data."
"I like that Databricks is a unified platform that lets you do streaming and batch processing in the same place. You can do analytics, too. They have added something called Databricks SQL Analytics, allowing users to connect to the data lake to perform analytics. Databricks also will enable you to share your data securely. It integrates with your reporting system as well."
"I think the visualization part is valuable."
"The DAX coding language is good for creating formulae."
"Technical support is quite responsive."
"As it was my first time using Power BI, I can say that it was fairly easy to learn, especially if you already know BI-type tools."
"Microsoft BI is better than most solutions we have. It's pretty easy to conduct analysis with it."
"Its visualizations and dashboards are most valuable. Power BI is great in terms of visualizations and dashboards. The reports that we previously had were not very nice in terms of visualization. It also provides the ability to play with the data."
"The best feature of this solution is the way you can plan, communicate, and visualize all the knowledge you extract from the data for the customers. I like the way you can show or visualize the information a client needs to answer a business question."
"MS SQL & SQL Server Analysis Services."
"Pricing is one of the things that could be improved."
"We'd like a more visual dashboard for analysis It needs better UI."
"There is room for improvement in visualization."
"The product should incorporate more learning aspects. It needs to have a free trial version that the team can practice."
"It would be great if Databricks could integrate all the cloud platforms."
"Implementation of Databricks is still very code heavy."
"Can be improved by including drag-and-drop features."
"The pricing of Databricks could be cheaper."
"The look and feel should be updated in terms of the types of dashboards and graphs that you can produce. They aren't as visual as some of its competitors."
"The challenge of this product is in truncating the table data."
"Adding paginated reports to this tool could be of great help for users who want to move away from SSRS."
"There needs to be improved guidance and documentation for the initial setup of Power BI as it currently remains complex."
"The product doesn't support unstructured data. It doesn't support video, streaming, and strings of files."
"Real-time updating needs improvement."
"I would like to be able to use SQL properly within the reports and allow multiple people to work on the same report at the same time. If one person is working on it, then it causes issues for anyone else wanting to make reports."
"It should have more report outputs. They should expand the report outputs. Its documentation should also be better."
Databricks is ranked 1st in Data Science Platforms with 78 reviews while Microsoft Power BI is ranked 1st in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 297 reviews. Databricks is rated 8.2, while Microsoft Power BI is rated 8.0. 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 Microsoft Power BI writes "A complete ecosystem with an builtin ETL tool, good integrations with python and R, and support of DAX and Power Query (M languages)". Databricks is most compared with Amazon SageMaker, Informatica PowerCenter, Dataiku Data Science Studio, Microsoft Azure Machine Learning Studio and Alteryx, whereas Microsoft Power BI is most compared with Tableau, Amazon QuickSight, KNIME, Domo and SAS Visual Analytics.
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