We performed a comparison between Databricks and Qlik Sense based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Data Science Platforms solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."I like the ability to use workspaces with other colleagues because you can work together even without seeing the other team's job."
"The solution offers a free community version."
"The solution's features are fantastic and include interactive clusters that perform at top speed when compared to other solutions."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to use SQL directly with Databricks."
"A very valuable feature is the data processing, and the solution is specifically good at using the Spark ecosystem."
"The setup was straightforward."
"In the manufacturing industry, Databricks can be beneficial to use because of machine learning. It is useful for tasks, such as product analysis or predictive maintenance."
"Databricks' most valuable features are the workspace and notebooks. Its integration, interface, and documentation are also good."
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"Qlik Sense brings in the concept of shared libraries where one user can create custom dimensions (even with drill-down functionality), measures, and even visualizations and save it to the "Master Items," from which the other users can simply drag and drop to use it for their analysis."
"We can easily and quickly deploy new dashboards that reach a wide audience and any changes get reflected almost instantaneously for the users."
"Showing a miniature version of the chart if the case chart is bigger than the screen resolution allows us to have full context at all times."
"The drag-and-drop dashboard builder is an intuitive interface for building dashboards from source reports."
"The drag and drop functionality provides an easy and fast development approach."
"Qlik Sense is a very powerful and useful tool."
"The product responds fast for data analysis."
"Databricks' performance when serving the data to an analytics tool isn't as good as Snowflake's."
"Would be helpful to have additional licensing options."
"The integration of data could be a bit better."
"Can be improved by including drag-and-drop features."
"It would be better if it were faster. It can be slow, and it can be super fast for big data. But for small data, sometimes there is a sub-second response, which can be considered slow. In the next release, I would like to have automatic creation of APIs because they don't have it at the moment, and I spend a lot of time building them."
"The solution has some scalability and integration limitations when consolidating legacy systems."
"The integration features could be more interesting, more involved."
"Databricks is an analytics platform. It should offer more data science. It should have more features for data scientists to work with."
"There is an inability to effectively manage (pre)caching (scheduling, assigning for respective user groups, etc), especially without community extensions or uour own development."
"Reload failure alerts on the application within the Qlik Management Console without any use of extensions. QlikView is able to handle these alerts directly through the QlikView Management Console. We would appreciate a similar solution that is easy to set up and use. Simple formatting options in the pivot and straight tables such as adjusting line thickness and font selection and size."
"My advice to others is to make sure they have a good technical team. We have found that a lot of the consultants go in and out of the business and sometimes you are left alone without assistance."
"They need to keep it as simple as possible but include as much advanced functionality as possible by positioning all the objects on the page, changing colors for all the objects, improving sheets actions, etc."
"Error handling is an area that needs to be improved."
"Even though a huge set of learning material is available, anyone starting his/her journey on learning the software doesn't even know where to start it. The so-called Continous Classroom service is not cheap, but there are many free tutorials, they are not sorted or enlisted adequately though."
"Integrated maps should become part of the Qlik Sense, as opposed to buying an additional module just to power the BI, which has it built-in natively within the application."
"A valuable improvement for this solution would be the enabling of us to host dashboards for our customers."
Databricks is ranked 1st in Data Science Platforms with 78 reviews while Qlik Sense is ranked 2nd in Data Visualization with 112 reviews. Databricks is rated 8.2, while Qlik Sense is rated 8.6. 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 Qlik Sense writes "Customizable with good ROI and a quick learning curve". Databricks is most compared with Amazon SageMaker, Informatica PowerCenter, Dataiku Data Science Studio, Microsoft Azure Machine Learning Studio and Dremio, whereas Qlik Sense is most compared with Tableau, Amazon QuickSight, Microsoft Power BI, Apache Superset and TIBCO Spotfire. See our Databricks vs. Qlik Sense report.
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