We performed a comparison between Databricks and Oracle Essbase based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Databricks, Microsoft, Alteryx and others in Data Science Platforms."Can cut across the entire ecosystem of open source technology to give an extra level of getting the transformatory process of the data."
"What I like about Databricks is that it's one of the most popular platforms that give access to folks who are trying not just to do exploratory work on the data but also go ahead and build advanced modeling and machine learning on top of that."
"Databricks' Lakehouse architecture has been most useful for us. The data governance has been absolutely efficient in between other kinds of solutions."
"It's easy to increase performance as required."
"Databricks covers end-to-end data analytics workflow in one platform, this is the best feature of the solution."
"We like that this solution can handle a wide variety and velocity of data engineering, either in batch mode or real-time."
"It is fast, it's scalable, and it does the job it needs to do."
"The main features of the solution are efficiency."
"It helps us fetch specific data sets per users' requirements."
"The solution is stable and reliable."
"Unlike relational, where you're linking together multiple tables, with Essbase, you basically define what the dimensions are beforehand, and you define the hierarchy, and then load the data. This allows you to do a pretty sophisticated analysis so that you can drill into it and slice and dice the data."
"It is highly efficient and easily scalable, particularly for handling large databases."
"I have found the most valuable aspect is the user-friendly environment and current features."
"Essbase is extremely stable and low-maintenance."
"The solution can handle a large volume of data."
"The solution is scalable."
"There are no direct connectors — they are very limited."
"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."
"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."
"A lot of people are required to manage this solution."
"Can be improved by including drag-and-drop features."
"I have had some issues with some of the Spark clusters running on Databricks, where the Spark runtime and clusters go up and down, which is an area for improvement."
"The pricing of Databricks could be cheaper."
"When I used the support, I had communication problems because of the language barrier with the agent. The accent was difficult to understand."
"The initial setup could be simplified."
"There is room for improvement in terms of cost-effectiveness."
"I would like to see an integration with application performance management and a version control management tool."
"They should improve the solution's performance."
"It's an expensive product to use."
"The initial setup is pretty complex."
"Essbase has a programming language, and it has a couple of functions to do forecasting, however, their feature set for that is not that good."
"The ability to drive external reporting out for development could be improved."
Databricks is ranked 1st in Data Science Platforms with 78 reviews while Oracle Essbase is ranked 10th in Database Development and Management with 10 reviews. Databricks is rated 8.2, while Oracle Essbase is rated 8.4. 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 Essbase writes "It is easy to use and receives patch updates on regular intervals ". Databricks is most compared with Amazon SageMaker, Informatica PowerCenter, Dataiku Data Science Studio, Microsoft Azure Machine Learning Studio and Dremio, whereas Oracle Essbase is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform, SAP Analytics Cloud, Oracle Analytics Cloud and Alteryx.
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