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."It is a cost-effective solution."
"It's very simple to use Databricks Apache Spark."
"I work in the data science field and I found Databricks to be very useful."
"I like the ability to use workspaces with other colleagues because you can work together even without seeing the other team's job."
"The setup is quite easy."
"Databricks is hosted on the cloud. It is very easy to collaborate with other team members who are working on it. It is production-ready code, and scheduling the jobs is easy."
"I haven't heard about any major stability issues. At this time I feel like it's stable."
"It is fast, it's scalable, and it does the job it needs to do."
"It's enabled us to report directly from our main application systems. We're removing islands of data and we're removing inefficiencies, where people or small divisions had their own store of information."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"This solution allows you to input a wide range of file formats."
"A positive feature is Report Studio, where we create beautiful, complex reports."
"Self-service is possible through the use of dashboards, which are also very intuitive. Stories can be used to pin snapshots, tell the story for meetings, etc."
"The most valuable features are Report Development (Functionality) and Information Distribution (Flexibility)."
"The solution's most valuable feature is its ease of use, which makes it easily compatible with other tools."
"The dashboarding offered by this solution is very valuable to us."
"If I want to create a Databricks account, I need to have a prior cloud account such as an AWS account or an Azure account. Only then can I create a Databricks account on the cloud. However, if they can make it so that I can still try Databricks even if I don't have a cloud account on AWS and Azure, it would be great. That is, it would be nice if it were possible to create a pseudo account and be provided with a free trial. It is very essential to creating a workforce on Databricks. For example, students or corporate staff can then explore and learn Databricks."
"CI/CD needs additional leverage and support."
"The ability to customize our own pipelines would enhance the product, similar to what's possible using ML files in Microsoft Azure DevOps."
"Can be improved by including drag-and-drop features."
"There should be better integration with other platforms."
"I would like it if Databricks adopted an interface more like R Studio. When I create a data frame or a table, R Studio provides a preview of the data. In R Studio, I can see that it created a table with so many columns or rows. Then I can click on it and open a preview of that data."
"The Databricks cluster can be improved."
"The solution could improve by providing better automation capabilities. For example, working together with more of a DevOps approach, such as continuous integration."
"Compared to Tableau and PowerBI, the IBM interface is easier to use. However, the drag-and-drop functionality isn't as straightforward. Formatting is also more challenging in the cloud than in other applications, like Power BI. Also, if you encounter an issue, it takes more time to resolve it on the formatting side."
"I think the GIS pieces maybe not as good as we would like."
"It could have more options for themes."
"The AI-based features could be further enhanced by the solution."
"This product could use improvement in terms of usability for those with less technical know how."
"The visualization aspect needs to be improved and I believe, this is being resolved in upcoming versions."
"There are a lot of limitations with the out-of-the-box tool."
"One thing that we really want is the ability to have data portrayed on an image. Cognos is not able to do it at the moment, and that's becoming a requirement from the business side: having an image and then plotting your dataset on top of the image as a map."
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 Data Science Studio, 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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