We performed a comparison between Databricks and Oracle Essbase based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Databricks, Microsoft, Alteryx and others in Data Science Platforms."The most valuable feature is the ability to use SQL directly with Databricks."
"Imageflow is a visual tool that helps make it easier for business people to understand complex workflows."
"I work in the data science field and I found Databricks to be very useful."
"The solution is easy to use and has a quick start-up time due to being on the cloud."
"Databricks is based on a Spark cluster and it is fast. Performance-wise, it is great."
"The time travel feature is the solution's most valuable aspect."
"The most valuable feature of Databricks is the integration with Microsoft Azure."
"Databricks covers end-to-end data analytics workflow in one platform, this is the best feature of the solution."
"I have found the most valuable aspect is the user-friendly environment and current features."
"The solution is stable and reliable."
"Essbase is extremely stable and low-maintenance."
"It is highly efficient and easily scalable, particularly for handling large databases."
"It helps us fetch specific data sets per users' requirements."
"Unlike relational, where you're linking together multiple tables, with Essbase, you basically define what the dimensions are beforehand, and you define the hierarchy, and then load the data. This allows you to do a pretty sophisticated analysis so that you can drill into it and slice and dice the data."
"The solution can handle a large volume of data."
"The solution is scalable."
"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 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."
"It would be great if Databricks could integrate all the cloud platforms."
"In the future, I would like to see Data Lake support. That is something that I'm looking forward to."
"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."
"There should be better integration with other platforms."
"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."
"Databricks is not geared towards the end-user, but rather it is for data engineers or data scientists."
"It's an expensive product to use."
"There is room for improvement in terms of cost-effectiveness."
"Essbase has a programming language, and it has a couple of functions to do forecasting, however, their feature set for that is not that good."
"The ability to drive external reporting out for development could be improved."
"They should improve the solution's performance."
"I would like to see an integration with application performance management and a version control management tool."
"The initial setup could be simplified."
"The initial setup is pretty complex."
Databricks is ranked 1st in Data Science Platforms with 78 reviews while Oracle Essbase is ranked 10th in Database Development and Management with 10 reviews. Databricks is rated 8.2, while Oracle Essbase is rated 8.4. 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 Oracle Essbase writes "It is easy to use and receives patch updates on regular intervals ". Databricks is most compared with Amazon SageMaker, Informatica PowerCenter, Dataiku Data Science Studio, Microsoft Azure Machine Learning Studio and Dremio, whereas Oracle Essbase is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform, SAP Analytics Cloud, Oracle Analytics Cloud and Alteryx.
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