We performed a comparison between Alteryx and Databricks based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Databricks has a slight edge in this comparison. It received better marks in the pricing category than Alteryx did.
"Shortens the time required to start analyzing data and looking for insights, minimizing the tasks that do not add value to the business and maximizing the analysis phase."
"It's super easy to learn how to use it — the learning curve is very small."
"The solution has a very strong community that is involved in the product. It helps make the usage easier and helps us find answers to our questions."
"I like the solution's velocity, the speed with which it processes data, and its ease of use."
"The scheduling feature for the automation is excellent."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is data preparation."
"The analytics are easy."
"The three data signs and data engineering are great features."
"The fast data loading process and data storage capabilities are great."
"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."
"Databricks' most valuable feature is the data transformation through PySpark."
"The Delta Lake data type has been the most useful part of this solution. Delta Lake is an opensource data type and it was implemented and invented by Databricks."
"The solution is an impressive tool for data migration and integration."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to use SQL directly with Databricks."
"The integration with Python and the notebooks really helps."
"What they're struggling with is it's not as mature as Tableau in the user management area. It was tougher to manage the server part of it right away, especially since the user base has grown."
"They can provide some pre-built tools for predictive analytics instead of us having to build all the tools. It should also be improved from the visualization aspect. It should have better visualization capabilities. There are tools out there that have better visualization capabilities, which Alteryx is lacking currently."
"Alteryx can improve in data science. They have to have more features and components in the data science aspect because they claim to be a data science tool. However, in order to be more competitive, they have to improve on their data science propositions. Thre are other solutions on the market, such as other players in the market, Data2Go or DataIQ, and Alteryx needs to catch up."
"I honestly can't think of anything that needs to be improved."
"It would be great to create the final users' visualization within Alteryx."
"The GUI interface functions but it could stand to be updated to a more modern look and feel."
"We are hoping that the NLP features will also support Chinese characters."
"They should make the solution user-friendly for nontechnical people by giving specific names to the options."
"I believe that this product could be improved by becoming more user-friendly."
"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."
"When I used the support, I had communication problems because of the language barrier with the agent. The accent was difficult to understand."
"There could be more support for automated machine learning in the database. I would like to see more ways to do analysis so that the reporting is more understandable."
"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."
"It would be very helpful if Databricks could integrate with platforms in addition to Azure."
"The stability of the clusters or the instances of Databricks would be better if it was a much more stable environment. We've had issues with crashes."
"The product should incorporate more learning aspects. It needs to have a free trial version that the team can practice."
Alteryx is ranked 3rd in Data Science Platforms with 74 reviews while Databricks is ranked 1st in Data Science Platforms with 78 reviews. Alteryx is rated 8.4, while Databricks is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Alteryx writes "Feature-rich ETL that condenses a number of functions into one tool". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Databricks writes "A nice interface with good features for turning off clusters to save on computing". Alteryx is most compared with KNIME, Dataiku Data Science Studio, RapidMiner, Qlik Sense and Microsoft Power BI, whereas Databricks is most compared with Amazon SageMaker, Informatica PowerCenter, Dataiku Data Science Studio, Microsoft Azure Machine Learning Studio and Domino Data Science Platform. See our Alteryx vs. Databricks report.
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