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.
"The design portion of this tool is easy to use without code, which his something that something we can appreciate."
"The value add of Alteryx is the agility for making changes, and speed of deployment."
"The GUI is simple and it integrates with Python."
"I like that I can merge data from different sources into one place."
"Alteryx speeds up the time to obtain business answers/insights on data."
"Alteryx has helped us spend more time identifying results instead of performing analysis manually. It has helped us in our loading process, including scrubbing data and identifying data elements that need to be corrected. It enables us to understand our data sets a lot better."
"The cloud deployment ensures it scales easily."
"One-stop shop for data preparation, blending, prediction, and optimization in a single workflow."
"The solution is an impressive tool for data migration and integration."
"There are good features for turning off clusters."
"Ability to work collaboratively without having to worry about the infrastructure."
"Databricks' most valuable features are the workspace and notebooks. Its integration, interface, and documentation are also good."
"It is a cost-effective solution."
"The ability to stream data and the windowing feature are valuable."
"Databricks allows me to automate the creation of a cluster, optimized for machine learning and construct AI machine learning models for the client."
"We have the ability to scale, collaborate and do machine learning."
"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."
"It would be great to create the final users' visualization within Alteryx."
"I mostly used it for flat files, but I have many colleagues who reported that to tune a query, in case they want to directly connect to the database, there is no option to optimize the performance of the query, as we have in Informatica."
"It is a little bit pricey."
"It seems to me that it is not always user friendly."
"I think sometimes the solution doesn't load properly or takes so much time for the workflows. Though the workflow runs and completes the file in Excel, if you use the same formula, it's a bit slow. Also, the image processing is not so good because I tried to do some image processing and they were like, sometimes they put two to eight. In the document, it was two, but the OCR predicted it as eight."
"Mastering Alteryx, a comprehensive solution, takes time. However, once you have gained proficiency with its layout and how to drag, drop, and connect components, it becomes remarkably easy, yet still thorough."
"What they're struggling with is it's not as mature as Tableau in the user management area. It was tougher to manage the server part of it right away, especially since the user base has grown."
"I would like to see the integration between Databricks and MLflow improved. It is quite hard to train multiple models in parallel in the distributed fashions. You hit rate limits on the clients very fast."
"I believe that this product could be improved by becoming more user-friendly."
"Databricks is not geared towards the end-user, but rather it is for data engineers or data scientists."
"It should have more compatible and more advanced visualization and machine learning libraries."
"The integration features could be more interesting, more involved."
"Pricing is one of the things that could be improved."
"Databricks' technical support takes a while to respond and could be improved."
"Databricks would benefit from enhanced metrics and tighter integration with Azure's diagnostics."
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, Tableau and Microsoft Power BI, whereas Databricks is most compared with Amazon SageMaker, Informatica PowerCenter, Dataiku, Dremio and Apache Flink. See our Alteryx vs. Databricks report.
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