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."The integration with Python and the notebooks really helps."
"I work in the data science field and I found Databricks to be very useful."
"One of the features provides nice interactive clusters, or compute instances that you don't really need to manage often."
"I haven't heard about any major stability issues. At this time I feel like it's stable."
"The main features of the solution are efficiency."
"Databricks is based on a Spark cluster and it is fast. Performance-wise, it is great."
"Databricks covers end-to-end data analytics workflow in one platform, this is the best feature of the solution."
"We are completely satisfied with the ease of connecting to different sources of data or pocket files in the search"
"Technical support has sent us to rapid response before, when we really needed them."
"On our mobile solution you can deploy up to 100,000 users. In our case, we're up to about 10,000 active users, and MicroStrategy's server technology behind the scenes, the Intelligence Server and the Mobile Servers, are very robust and they can handle the workload."
"The most important feature is the way it handles ad hoc queries and provides formatted reports."
"It has the potential to become a great evangelist for AI and other embedded analytics."
"We leverage it, not only for reporting but for analytics and also for geospatial reporting."
"Dependency on development teams, as well as managing the platform, has reduced a lot with Visual Insight."
"The solution's platform analytics gives us real-time analysis of how a particular user uses the report and how the systems behave."
"It has had a direct impact on bottomline improvements."
"I would like to see the integration between Databricks and MLflow improved. It is quite hard to train multiple models in parallel in the distributed fashions. You hit rate limits on the clients very fast."
"Implementation of Databricks is still very code heavy."
"I would like more integration with SQL for using data in different workspaces."
"Databricks requires writing code in Python or SQL, so if you're a good programmer then you can use Databricks."
"Databricks can improve by making the documentation better."
"The integration features could be more interesting, more involved."
"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 connectivity with various BI tools could be improved, specifically the performance and real time integration."
"Sometimes, it has become too complex to upgrade and adjust to the ecosystem."
"Something I would be interested in is more visualizations, because right now we use SDK to create some. If there were more out-of-the-box options, we would be happy with that."
"The product is designed for enterprise. A lightweight version would be easier for a smaller workgroup."
"I think they're still lacking on customer service. I think historically, MicroStrategy's customer service was a lot better than it is today."
"The solution's reports are not very flexible."
"We did have issues with stability, and that was because we were co-located with another business unit, and we outgrew them on the unit. So we had to get to a separate physical instance."
"When we come to them with a problem, they might know more of a generalized solution, but not one targeted to our industry."
"It needs row-level security, column-level security, on attributes. I want to be able to handle full-scale security model from the semantic layer, flat out."
Databricks is ranked 1st in Data Science Platforms with 78 reviews while MicroStrategy is ranked 9th 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 Data Science Studio, 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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