Alteryx vs RapidMiner comparison

 

Comparison Buyer's Guide

Executive Summary
 

Categories and Ranking

Alteryx
Ranking in Predictive Analytics
1st
Ranking in Data Science Platforms
3rd
Average Rating
8.4
Number of Reviews
74
Ranking in other categories
Data Preparation Tools (1st)
RapidMiner
Ranking in Predictive Analytics
3rd
Ranking in Data Science Platforms
6th
Average Rating
8.6
Number of Reviews
22
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2024, in the Predictive Analytics category, the mindshare of Alteryx is 26.7%, up from 25.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of RapidMiner is 20.0%, down from 23.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Predictive Analytics
Unique Categories:
Data Science Platforms
6.5%
Data Preparation Tools
31.6%
 

Q&A Highlights

AP
Nov 02, 2023
 

Featured Reviews

ST
Mar 26, 2021
Stable with no-code analytics capability, but needs Linux support, better pricing, and better response from their US partner management program team
If a customer already has a data engineering and analytics team, I would lean towards RapidMiner and DataRobot, depending on the specific need of the customer. If they want more AI, I would recommend DataRobot. If they want more analytics and data, I would go with RapidMiner. If they don't have a data engineering and analytics team and they're starting something afresh, or if they have a capacity issue with the analytics team, then I would recommend Alteryx. Alteryx works out pretty okay if they don't have a sufficient number of qualified data and analytics people because it goes with the philosophy of citizen data scientists. I would rate Alteryx a seven out of ten.
MN
Jan 16, 2020
Dedicated data science for enterprise-level data collection and analysis but the UI should be enhanced
On a scale from one to ten where one is the worst and ten is the best, I would rate RapidMiner as around a seven. I choose seven because of the UI things and other parts of the product that might be improved. RapidMiner is more of an enterprise product. Here, in this region, most people like a packaged solution like Alteryx which covers more. Alteryx is also more attractive to many users because it is cheaper and easier to use from the perspective of the user interface. With Alteryx or Tableau, for example, you can just pick up data sources and then start EDL (enterprise data lake). It takes more effort to bring the data on to the data mart for RapidMiner and other enterprise products in the traffic mining category. These enterprise solutions have an additional level of complexity and flexibility but not everyone even needs it.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"Data processing is most valuable. It is one of the fastest data blockers out there in the market, which is a fascinating thing about Alteryx."
"The ease-of-use allows non-technical business users to directly create their own solutions without the use of additional development resources."
"Alteryx is a low-code platform, and that's the biggest reason why we chose it."
"It allows for manipulation and automation, which has greatly reduced the amount of time required per project."
"The data transformation feature is the most valuable. The ability to ingest data, visualize data, and transform that data is useful."
"Alteryx's connectivity is essential. We like the ability to connect the solution to multiple sources. It's easier than other data modeling and extraction solutions. It's built on a self-service concept, so it's easy for anyone to open the tool and directly import or export data from it."
"The feature that I have found most valuable for Alteryx is its geo-referencing feature, it is very good. I use it a lot, especially for supply chain."
"The tools are built-in. You just plug and play, drag and drop, once you understand how to use the tools, it is easy."
"RapidMiner is very easy to use."
"RapidMiner for Windows is an excellent graphical tool for data science."
"We value the collaboration and governance features because it's a comprehensive platform that covers everything from data extraction to modeling operations in the ML language. RapidMiner is competitive in the ML space."
"The best part of RapidMiner is efficiency."
"The solution is very intuitive and powerful."
"The most valuable feature of RapidMiner is that it can read a large number of file formats including CSV, Excel, and in particular, SPSS."
"The GUI capabilities of the solution are excellent. Their Auto ML model provides for even non-coder data scientists to deploy a model."
"The documentation for this solution is very good, where each operator is explained with how to use it."
 

Cons

"It would be great if Alteryx could take third party tools and incorporate them."
"A feature which allows the user to be able to click on an output (in a file browser) and see the creation of the module would be fantastic."
"There could be a bit of improvement related to performance. Sometimes it demands a lot of resources for running it, like memory and search."
"There are a few hiccups with specific data sets and languages or formats that the data comes in. That may be a minor problem, but we can work through it. We had some issues looking at XML format in added data, but it wasn't significant."
"The interface could be improved."
"It should have Linux support. It currently supports only Windows. It does not support any other platform. Its price should also be lower. Their US partner management program is actually unresponsive. One of the reasons why we don't have a formalized partnership plan with them is because their partner management team is atrociously unresponsive. This is something that they need to change."
"The learning curve is long, and there is lack of e-learning; the tool is not user-friendly to a non-technical user."
"In the database, it should be more functional and connect to more big data, especially using IPI."
"In terms of the UI and SaaS, the user interface with KNIME is more appealing than RapidMiner."
"It would be helpful to have some tutorials on communicating with Python."
"In the Mexican or Latin American market, it's kind of pricey."
"About twenty-five percent of my problems involve image processing, and I found RapidMiner lacking in this domain. While we work on OCR and similar tasks, RapidMiner hasn't been as engaged in that field as other models. Some other models also support email processing, but RapidMiner doesn't offer this feature."
"The biggest problem, not from a platform process, but from an avoidance process, is when you work in a heavily regulated environment, like banking and finance. Whenever you make a decision or there is an output, you need to bill it as an avoidance to the investigator or to the bank audit team. If you made decisions within this machine learning model, you need to explain why you did so. It would better if you could explain your decision in terms of delivery. However, this is an issue with all ML platforms. Many companies are working heavily in this area to help figure out how to make it more explainable to the business team or the regulator."
"The product must provide data-cleaning features."
"If they could include video tutorials, people would find that quite helpful."
"One challenge I encountered while implementing RapidMiner was the lack of documentation. Since there aren't as many users, finding resources to learn the tool was initially difficult. To overcome this hurdle, I believe RapidMiner could improve by providing more tutorials tailored for new users."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The price could be better."
"It's probably on the pricey side, but they provide some really useful ways to grow and test."
"Alteryx is an expensive solution."
"My organization pays for it, and I do not look into the financial aspect of the licensing, but I know it is pretty expensive."
"The desktop platform costs $5,000 per year. It's very costly."
"The pricing is $5000 per year per production license."
"It is an expensive solution."
"The designer has a list price of $5,995 USD."
"The client only has to pay the licensing costs. There are not any maintenance or hidden costs in addition to the license."
"Although we don't pay licensing fees because it is being used within the university, my understanding is that the cost is between $5,000 and $10,000 USD per year."
"I used an educational license for this solution, which is available free of charge."
"For the university, the cost of the solution is free for the students and teachers."
"I'm not fully aware of RapidMiner's price because we had licenses provided, but from my analysis, it's moderately priced, not too high or too low. It's worth the investment."
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Answers from the Community

AP
Nov 2, 2023
Nov 2, 2023
Of those three you should consider alteryx, it saves time in ETL a lot, Alteryx is better at handling large data sets tan Knime and RapidMiner. But please also consider Dataiku... Up to 3 users it's free ;o)
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TH
Apr 15, 2023
I'd suggest checking out the new Actable AI as well. It has a better AutoML and a lot more advanced features like Causal ML.
AltanAtabarut - PeerSpot reviewer
Nov 2, 2023
Of those three you should consider alteryx, it saves time in ETL a lot,  Alteryx is better at handling large data sets tan Knime and RapidMiner. But please also consider Dataiku... Up to 3 users it's free ;o)
 

Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
23%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Computer Software Company
9%
Retailer
6%
University
11%
Computer Software Company
11%
Educational Organization
10%
Manufacturing Company
9%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

What is the Biggest Difference Between Alteryx and IBM SPSS Modeler?
One of the differences is that with Alteryx you can use it as an ETL and analytics tool. Please connect with me directly if you want to know more.
What is the Biggest Difference Between Alteryx and IBM SPSS Modeler?
Alteryx is an extremely easy and flexible data tool, flexible in terms of drag and drop toolset and also has python, R integrations if your team requires this. It can handle over 2 billion rows of...
What is the Biggest Difference Between Alteryx and IBM SPSS Modeler?
I am not familiar with IBM SPSS Modeler, therefore, I cannot compare these two products. Regarding Alteryx I can say the following: - An excellent desktop tool for Data Prep and analytics. - Featu...
What do you like most about RapidMiner?
RapidMiner is a no-code machine learning tool. I can install it on my local machine and work with smaller datasets. It can also connect to databases, allowing me to build models directly on the dat...
What needs improvement with RapidMiner?
One challenge I encountered while implementing RapidMiner was the lack of documentation. Since there aren't as many users, finding resources to learn the tool was initially difficult. To overcome t...
 

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