We performed a comparison between Databricks and Pentaho Business Analytics 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."
"A very valuable feature is the data processing, and the solution is specifically good at using the Spark ecosystem."
"Databricks helps crunch petabytes of data in a very short period of time."
"The processing capacity is tremendous in the database."
"One of the features provides nice interactive clusters, or compute instances that you don't really need to manage often."
"Databricks gives us the ability to build a lakehouse framework and do everything implicit to this type of database structure. We also like the ability to stream events. Databricks covers a broad spectrum, from reporting and machine learning to streaming events. It's important for us to have all these features in one platform."
"We have the ability to scale, collaborate and do machine learning."
"It's easy to increase performance as required."
"I use the BI Server, CDE Dashboards, Saiku, and Kettle, because these tools are very good and highly experienced."
"Easy to use components to create the job."
"Pentaho is an analytics platform that can be used when an organization has a lot of big data storage systems already installed and needs to manage and analyze that data. It has a specific use case for unstructured data, such as documents, and needs to be able to search and analyze it."
"The most valuable feature of Pentaho is the Tableau report."
"We were able to install it without any assistance from tech support."
"The initial setup is pretty straightforward."
"Pentaho Business Analytics' best features include the ease of developing data flows and the wide range of options to connect to databases, including those on the cloud."
"The product should incorporate more learning aspects. It needs to have a free trial version that the team can practice."
"In the future, I would like to see Data Lake support. That is something that I'm looking forward to."
"I would like it if Databricks made it easier to set up a project."
"It would be great if Databricks could integrate all the cloud platforms."
"The integration of data could be a bit better."
"Anyone who doesn't know SQL may find the product difficult to work with."
"Instead of relying on a massive instance, the solution should offer micro partition levels. They're working on it, however, they need to implement it to help the solution run more effectively."
"The integration features could be more interesting, more involved."
"Pentaho Business Analytics' user interface is outdated."
"We did not achieve the ROI. The work delivered to users had lesser value than the subscription cost."
"Another concern is that Pentaho is not customizable or interactive."
"Deployment is not simple. It is not simple because we are dealing with a lot of data; we are dealing with a lot of storage. So, it's not a simple process."
"Logging capability is needed."
"Version control would be a good addition."
"The repository should be improved."
"Pentaho, at the general level, should greatly improve the easy construction of its dashboards and easy integration of information from different sources without technical user intervention."
Databricks is ranked 1st in Data Science Platforms with 78 reviews while Pentaho Business Analytics is ranked 19th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 42 reviews. Databricks is rated 8.2, while Pentaho Business Analytics 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 Pentaho Business Analytics writes "Flexible, easy to understand, and simple to set up". Databricks is most compared with Amazon SageMaker, Informatica PowerCenter, Dataiku, Microsoft Azure Machine Learning Studio and Dremio, whereas Pentaho Business Analytics is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services, SAP Crystal Reports, KNIME and Tableau.
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