We performed a comparison between Databricks and Oracle OBIEE based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Databricks, Microsoft, Alteryx and others in Data Science Platforms."The Delta Lake data type has been the most useful part of this solution. Delta Lake is an opensource data type and it was implemented and invented by Databricks."
"The initial setup is pretty easy."
"Databricks' most valuable features are the workspace and notebooks. Its integration, interface, and documentation are also good."
"Databricks makes it really easy to use a number of technologies to do data analysis. In terms of languages, we can use Scala, Python, and SQL. Databricks enables you to run very large queries, at a massive scale, within really good timeframes."
"This solution offers a lake house data concept that we have found exciting. We are able to have a large amount of data in a data lake and can manage all relational activities."
"It can send out large data amounts."
"The ability to stream data and the windowing feature are valuable."
"Databricks integrates well with other solutions."
"They are introducing AI. There are good forecasting features and machine learning."
"I like the scheduling feature. It has an inbuilt scheduler which is very good, and it allows us to create agents, and those agents can be scheduled. It's quite flexible in that respect and goes into our IT infrastructure. The outputs are sent encrypted to various endpoints. Some are internal, and some are our clients, and it's encrypted at a high level. I do find Oracle OBIEE flexible. If there is stuff that's not in your model or schema, it's very flexible to create SQL scripts and create the data you want. It's quite nice to create a dashboard in OBIEE, and that's pretty straightforward in the way you drag and drop everything. You can create sections, and you can add elements to your page. That bit of the interface is relatively straightforward."
"I think having the conformed structures makes it a lot easier for end users and pulling reports together."
"It provides excellent stability."
"User-friendly look and feel."
"Oracle OBIEE is good for data visualization and analytical reporting."
"The “Business Model & Mapping” layer in the Administration Tool, because the maintenance and evolution processes are greatly facilitated."
"Dashboards provide us with various views and perspectives on our data, allowing us to analyze metrics such as revenue, occupancy rates, etc."
"The stability of the clusters or the instances of Databricks would be better if it was a much more stable environment. We've had issues with crashes."
"The product cannot be integrated with a popular coding IDE."
"It should have more compatible and more advanced visualization and machine learning libraries."
"The product could be improved by offering an expansion of their visualization capabilities, which currently assists in development in their notebook environment."
"Implementation of Databricks is still very code heavy."
"The solution could be improved by integrating it with data packets. Right now, the load tables provide a function, like team collaboration. Still, it's unclear as to if there's a function to create different branches and/or more branches. Our team had used data packets before, however, I feel it's difficult to integrate the current with the previous data packets."
"The solution could improve by providing better automation capabilities. For example, working together with more of a DevOps approach, such as continuous integration."
"Overall it's a good product, however, it doesn't do well against any individual best-of-breed products."
"It's not so flexible to do BI reporting directly from the data source without models. It is not that agile."
"It was a little bit tedious to install a new release."
"I would like to see the data wrangling features enhanced."
"There could be better integration with other solutions, such as Microsoft Office."
"Its overall organization as an analytical tool, the layout of OBIEE, is not very good."
"The ability to migrate from one version to another, such as doing so from version 11 to an upgraded 12 of Oracle business environment, can be difficult."
"n the beginning it had it's stability issues, but it became stable."
"Supply chain and finance."
Databricks is ranked 1st in Data Science Platforms with 78 reviews while Oracle OBIEE is ranked 3rd in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 154 reviews. Databricks is rated 8.2, while Oracle OBIEE is rated 7.8. 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 Oracle OBIEE writes "A solution that is easily accessible, scalable and requires a straightforward initial setup process to get started". Databricks is most compared with Amazon SageMaker, Informatica PowerCenter, Dataiku Data Science Studio, Microsoft Azure Machine Learning Studio and Dremio, whereas Oracle OBIEE is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform, IBM Cognos, Tableau and Oracle Analytics Cloud.
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