We performed a comparison between Databricks and ThoughtSpot based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Databricks, Microsoft, Alteryx and others in Data Science Platforms."The most valuable feature of Databricks is the integration with Microsoft Azure."
"Databricks is a scalable solution. It is the largest advantage of the solution."
"It is a cost-effective solution."
"The setup was straightforward."
"Automation with Databricks is very easy when using the API."
"The solution's features are fantastic and include interactive clusters that perform at top speed when compared to other solutions."
"A very valuable feature is the data processing, and the solution is specifically good at using the Spark ecosystem."
"Databricks' most valuable features are the workspace and notebooks. Its integration, interface, and documentation are also good."
"ThoughtSpot takes the modifying of existing reports out of our hands."
"It is easy to set up the solution."
"The scalability is good."
"The initial setup was very straightforward."
"I like ThoughtSpot's search capabilities. You can also create custom analytics even if you aren't an experienced data analyst. We have users with no data analytics experience making some of the dashboards we've created, copying components, and customizing them to their specific use cases."
"I would say the return on investment is good. Whatever we invested, we got results. We have been finding it easy to use and onboard new use cases."
"The ability to do ad hoc explorations of data has been most valuable."
"It's easy to drill down or expand data to get more details right out of the box."
"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."
"The initial setup is difficult."
"The pricing of Databricks could be cheaper."
"Databricks is an analytics platform. It should offer more data science. It should have more features for data scientists to work with."
"Would be helpful to have additional licensing options."
"The connectivity with various BI tools could be improved, specifically the performance and real time integration."
"Overall it's a good product, however, it doesn't do well against any individual best-of-breed products."
"I'm not the guy that I'm working with Databricks on a daily basis. I'm on the management team. However, my team tells me there are limitations with streaming events. The connectors work with a small set of platforms. For example, we can work with Kafka, but if we want to move to an event-driven solution from AWS, we cannot do it. We cannot connect to all the streaming analytics platforms, so we are limited in choosing the best one."
"ThoughtSpot is a fairly new product, so some usability aspects aren't as mature as we'd like them to be. One example is their organizational methodology, like how objects are organized in their dashboards inside the product. They're all on a flat list, which works if you've got five or 10 dashboards. However, it's insufficient when you're a large enterprise with multiple groups looking at the same dashboards. It isn't organized well."
"The one area of the solution that I do hear needs improvement is on the visualization front."
"If I want to order columns, this feature is not there."
"A customized visualization is lacking in this product."
"The most difficult thing I found is that it only deals with the files and does not have direct connectivity to databases."
"I would like to see more flexibility in adding the pins. Currently, we have four different sizes in which I can add pins, but I would like to be able to resize my pins."
"The dashboards could give you more ability to fine tune the appearance. You get a great deal more control over how something looks in Power BI than you do in ThoughtSpot."
"In terms of features, I'd like to be able to pivot data - for example, going from rows to columns. It's not easy to do."
Databricks is ranked 1st in Data Science Platforms with 78 reviews while ThoughtSpot is ranked 15th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 8 reviews. Databricks is rated 8.2, while ThoughtSpot is rated 7.6. 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 ThoughtSpot writes "You can drill down into any data right out of the box, with a straightforward deployment, and great support". Databricks is most compared with Amazon SageMaker, Informatica PowerCenter, Dataiku, Microsoft Azure Machine Learning Studio and Dremio, whereas ThoughtSpot is most compared with Tableau, Microsoft Power BI, Looker, Amazon QuickSight and Dremio.
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