We performed a comparison between Databricks and Software AG Apama based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Databricks, Amazon, Confluent and others in Streaming Analytics."Automation with Databricks is very easy when using the API."
"Imageflow is a visual tool that helps make it easier for business people to understand complex workflows."
"We can scale the product."
"It's very simple to use Databricks Apache Spark."
"The technical support is good."
"The processing capacity is tremendous in the database."
"We like that this solution can handle a wide variety and velocity of data engineering, either in batch mode or real-time."
"We are completely satisfied with the ease of connecting to different sources of data or pocket files in the search"
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the ability that it provides its users to handle different kinds of rules."
"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."
"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 integration features could be more interesting, more involved."
"I would like to see more documentation in terms of how an end-user could use it, and users like me can easily try it and implement use cases."
"There would also be benefits if more options were available for workers, or the clusters of the two points."
"The product could be improved by offering an expansion of their visualization capabilities, which currently assists in development in their notebook environment."
"I have seen better user interfaces, so that is something that can be improved."
"The integration of data could be a bit better."
"The ease of development and maintenance should be enhanced, but it is difficult due to the use of the proprietary programming language in the product."
Databricks is ranked 1st in Streaming Analytics with 77 reviews while Software AG Apama is ranked 16th in Streaming Analytics with 1 review. Databricks is rated 8.2, while Software AG Apama is rated 7.0. 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 Software AG Apama writes "A tool to send out promotional notifications that need to improve areas, like deployment and maintenance". Databricks is most compared with Amazon SageMaker, Informatica PowerCenter, Microsoft Azure Machine Learning Studio, Dataiku Data Science Studio and Azure Stream Analytics, whereas Software AG Apama is most compared with Apache Flink, Oracle BAM, TIBCO Streambase CEP and IBM MQ.
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