We performed a comparison between Databricks and MicroStrategy 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."
"When we have a huge volume of data that we want to process with speed, velocity, and volume, we go through Databricks."
"Databricks provides a consistent interface for data engineers to work with data in a consistent language on a single integrated platform for ingesting, processing, and serving data to the end user."
"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."
"The technical support is good."
"The built-in optimization recommendations halved the speed of queries and allowed us to reach decision points and deliver insights very quickly."
"Automation with Databricks is very easy when using the API."
"It's easy to increase performance as required."
"I find MicroStrategy the most suited to the enterprise-wide BI platform, because of its scalability and stability."
"Has a great semantic layer."
"The option to use various administrative tools, like Integrity Manager, is a valuable feature."
"The interactive features that appear in the report were good. The external rendering option they give with multi servers was also good."
"The solution's platform analytics gives us real-time analysis of how a particular user uses the report and how the systems behave."
"It helps all the store managers and supply chain people to obtain a view of the data and plan the next week, the next month, quarters, and so on."
"The subscription model is excellent. About half of our reporting comes out of the subscription, and from there, the ease of use in dragging and dropping reporting objects."
"The technical support is quite good."
"The product should incorporate more learning aspects. It needs to have a free trial version that the team can practice."
"The initial setup is difficult."
"Can be improved by including drag-and-drop features."
"Databricks has added some alerts and query functionality into their SQL persona, but the whole SQL persona, which is like a role, needs a lot of development. The alerts are not very flexible, and the query interface itself is not as polished as the notebook interface that is used through the data science and machine learning persona. It is clunky at present."
"A lot of people are required to manage this solution."
"The tool should improve its integration with other products."
"There are no direct connectors — they are very limited."
"Generative AI is catching up in areas like data governance and enterprise flavor. Hence, these are places where Databricks has to be faster."
"Consolidate the functional offering to be more concise in the front-end for web reports, dashboards, and self-service."
"We have the mobile server. We have not used it. That is because the people on our team have not been trained on it yet, but that is something that we want to do."
"They need to improve on having more professional, well-equipped premium support."
"The learning curve is quite steep."
"It needs better visualizations."
"I would try to make it a little more basic, user-friendly. In terms of the UX, it's a bit sluggish there."
"Lacks decent visualization and the process for creating new objects needs to be simplified."
"MicroStrategy should become more user friendly. It should behave more like Tableau."
Databricks is ranked 1st in Data Science Platforms with 78 reviews while MicroStrategy is ranked 8th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 155 reviews. Databricks is rated 8.2, while MicroStrategy is rated 8.2. 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 MicroStrategy writes "A robust solution for powerful data analytics". Databricks is most compared with Amazon SageMaker, Informatica PowerCenter, Dataiku, Microsoft Azure Machine Learning Studio and Dremio, whereas MicroStrategy is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Tableau, IBM Cognos, SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform and QlikView.
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