We performed a comparison between Databricks and IBM Cognos based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Databricks, Microsoft, Alteryx and others in Data Science Platforms."The solution offers a free community version."
"The load distribution capabilities are good, and you can perform data processing tasks very quickly."
"It is a cost-effective solution."
"The processing capacity is tremendous in the database."
"The ability to stream data and the windowing feature are valuable."
"Databricks covers end-to-end data analytics workflow in one platform, this is the best feature of the solution."
"Databricks provides a consistent interface for data engineers to work with data in a consistent language on a single integrated platform for ingesting, processing, and serving data to the end user."
"There are good features for turning off clusters."
"IBM Cognos improves the effectiveness of the sales team."
"Even while a user is using a cube for reporting, there will not be a situation as ' Cube file locked; unable to build or deploy'."
"Security administration tools are powerful and flexible."
"IBM Cognos offers tools so that you can design and develop your own test queries and reporting solutions."
"If they want dashboarding, storytelling, and analyzing why KPIs are met or not, then Cognos is a better candidate than Qlik Sense."
"It is a stable product."
"Previously, we were doing static reporting. Management would request a report, and it would take staff a week or more to provide it. With Cognos, we have dynamic reporting, and it has reduced both reporting and decision making times significantly. With the solution's dashboard, the company's management team has updated records at their fingertips. This means that they can directly access the data they need to make decisions."
"The most valuable feature of IBM Cognos is security. The solution has updated features that other competitors' solutions come out with long after IBM Cognos has had them."
"Databricks would benefit from enhanced metrics and tighter integration with Azure's diagnostics."
"It should have more compatible and more advanced visualization and machine learning libraries."
"The data visualization for this solution could be improved. They have started to roll out a data visualization tool inside Databricks but it is in the early stages. It's not comparable to a solution like Power BI, Luca, or Tableau."
"In the future, I would like to see Data Lake support. That is something that I'm looking forward to."
"We'd like a more visual dashboard for analysis It needs better UI."
"Overall it's a good product, however, it doesn't do well against any individual best-of-breed products."
"It would be great if Databricks could integrate all the cloud platforms."
"The product should incorporate more learning aspects. It needs to have a free trial version that the team can practice."
"IBM Support can be slow at times, but they can usually deliver in a timely manner."
"The performance is a bottleneck and something that can be improved."
"Extending features on dashboards so it becomes a real dashboard building application, not only a data exploration tool."
"The AI-based features could be further enhanced by the solution."
"It could have more options for themes."
"It would be good if the solution had conditional formatting."
"There are some problems with how Cognos handles huge data sets and when connecting with multiple sources and searching the data."
"Most of our company's customers want to be able to deploy IBM Cognos on a web application and use it as a desktop application, which is not possible currently."
Databricks is ranked 1st in Data Science Platforms with 78 reviews while IBM Cognos is ranked 7th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 132 reviews. Databricks is rated 8.2, while IBM Cognos 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 IBM Cognos writes "Improved the quality of our KPIs, while reducing calls to the IT department". Databricks is most compared with Amazon SageMaker, Informatica PowerCenter, Dataiku, Microsoft Azure Machine Learning Studio and Dremio, whereas IBM Cognos is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Oracle OBIEE, Tableau, SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform and Oracle Hyperion.
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