We performed a comparison between Databricks and MicroStrategy based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Databricks, Microsoft, Alteryx and others in Data Science Platforms."The integration with Python and the notebooks really helps."
"Its lightweight and fast processing are valuable."
"The solution is very simple and stable."
"Databricks integrates well with other solutions."
"A very valuable feature is the data processing, and the solution is specifically good at using the Spark ecosystem."
"The most valuable aspect of the solution is its notebook. It's quite convenient to use, both terms of the research and the development and also the final deployment, I can just declare the spark jobs by the load tables. It's quite convenient."
"The capacity of use of the different types of coding is valuable. Databricks also has good performance because it is running in spark extra storage, meaning the performance and the capacity use different kinds of codes."
"Ability to work collaboratively without having to worry about the infrastructure."
"It is a good tool to help our customers visually see loads of data."
"Getting more data to people more quickly. Providing more flexibility for how they use the data."
"The usability for users to be able to drag and drop, then create their own reports."
"Speed for high level aggregation by using Intelligent Cubes."
"It was easy to install and implement a report with it."
"I think what we're currently excited about is the ability to integrate R. Most of our data scientists use R for their modeling. I heard at one of the sessions, here at MicroStrategy World 2018, that you can put your R scripts directly into MicroStrategy, so any modeling effort that you've done in the past can be transferred into MicroStrategy."
"MicroStrategy's best feature is that it is a user-friendly tool."
"I really like the visualizations. I like how you can put large data sets in there, then the user can quickly go through the data and drill down at various levels to understand things."
"Overall it's a good product, however, it doesn't do well against any individual best-of-breed products."
"Databricks has a lack of debuggers, and it would be good to see more components."
"The pricing of Databricks could be cheaper."
"Would be helpful to have additional licensing options."
"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 interface of Databricks could be easier to use when compared to other solutions. It is not easy for non-data scientists. The user interface is important before we had to write code manually and as solutions move to "No code AI" it is critical that the interface is very good."
"Databricks' performance when serving the data to an analytics tool isn't as good as Snowflake's."
"Databricks would benefit from enhanced metrics and tighter integration with Azure's diagnostics."
"This solution is missing enhanced features in the dashboards."
"Consolidate the functional offering to be more concise in the front-end for web reports, dashboards, and self-service."
"The web developer tool for documents creation does not have all the features of the client version"
"We have seen some stability issues with MicroStrategy on cloud. We have a few unhappy customers."
"The product could be improved by adding additional visualization."
"The product is designed for enterprise. A lightweight version would be easier for a smaller workgroup."
"If they can make it more stable, in terms of the connectivity, that would help."
"Sometimes, it has become too complex to upgrade and adjust to the ecosystem."
Databricks is ranked 1st in Data Science Platforms with 78 reviews while MicroStrategy is ranked 8th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 155 reviews. Databricks is rated 8.2, while MicroStrategy is rated 8.2. 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 MicroStrategy writes "A robust solution for powerful data analytics". Databricks is most compared with Amazon SageMaker, Informatica PowerCenter, Dataiku Data Science Studio, Microsoft Azure Machine Learning Studio and Dremio, whereas MicroStrategy is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Tableau, IBM Cognos, SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform and QlikView.
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