We performed a comparison between Databricks and Oracle OBIEE based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Databricks, Microsoft, Alteryx and others in Data Science Platforms."The initial setup phase of Databricks was good."
"The most valuable feature of Databricks is the notebook, data factory, and ease of use."
"The most valuable aspect of the solution is its notebook. It's quite convenient to use, both terms of the research and the development and also the final deployment, I can just declare the spark jobs by the load tables. It's quite convenient."
"The capacity of use of the different types of coding is valuable. Databricks also has good performance because it is running in spark extra storage, meaning the performance and the capacity use different kinds of codes."
"Databricks is a unified solution that we can use for streaming. It is supporting open source languages, which are cloud-agnostic. When I do database coding if any other tool has a similar language pack to Excel or SQL, I can use the same knowledge, limiting the need to learn new things. It supports a lot of Python libraries where I can use some very easily."
"Databricks' most valuable feature is the data transformation through PySpark."
"The solution is easy to use and has a quick start-up time due to being on the cloud."
"Databricks makes it really easy to use a number of technologies to do data analysis. In terms of languages, we can use Scala, Python, and SQL. Databricks enables you to run very large queries, at a massive scale, within really good timeframes."
"The performance can issue queries to work in the Oracle database in Oracle's native language. There are a lot of visualizations which suit our business."
"The most valuable feature of Oracle OBIEE is the security of the solution."
"User-friendly look and feel."
"Oracle OBIEE is very easy to use. Looking at analytics, I think they have come a long way by adding new features like visualization, which is really cool."
"The solution is easy to use and very flexible."
"There are some great new features in the latest version."
"They are introducing AI. There are good forecasting features and machine learning."
"The most valuable features of Oracle OBIEE are ease of use, the graphical user interface is simple to understand, and the reports can be done without problems. There are many tutorials and training materials available if needed."
"The connectivity with various BI tools could be improved, specifically the performance and real time integration."
"Databricks has a lack of debuggers, and it would be good to see more components."
"Doesn't provide a lot of credits or trial options."
"Databricks is not geared towards the end-user, but rather it is for data engineers or data scientists."
"The solution has some scalability and integration limitations when consolidating legacy systems."
"Some of the error messages that we receive are too vague, saying things like "unknown exception", and these should be improved to make it easier for developers to debug problems."
"When I used the support, I had communication problems because of the language barrier with the agent. The accent was difficult to understand."
"Anyone who doesn't know SQL may find the product difficult to work with."
"An area for improvement is that Oracle pushes more users to Oracle BI Publisher rather than emphasizing Oracle OBIEE for reporting. The pricing for Oracle OBIEE could be improved."
"It could be more user-friendly. For example, the RPD layer could be more straightforward. From a user's point of view, the visualization, especially the graphs, are not as attractive when compared to other tools like QlikView and Qlik Sense."
"Setup and migration are very complex. Technically, Oracle accessory is extremely complex. These days, the industry demands a kind of Excel analysis, which is very easy to install, set up, and it's very developer-friendly as well as end-user friendly. OBIEE lacks all those features."
"Oracle OBIEE only displays KPIs, but it does not include strategic objectives or display risk in a strategic map."
"While it is a user-friendly, data-driven tool, the data modeling should be easier to use."
"n the beginning it had it's stability issues, but it became stable."
"There's a lot of redundancy, especially in relation to creating the code."
"Essbase integration needs to be worked on."
Databricks is ranked 1st in Data Science Platforms with 78 reviews while Oracle OBIEE is ranked 3rd in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 154 reviews. Databricks is rated 8.2, while Oracle OBIEE is rated 7.8. 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 OBIEE writes "A solution that is easily accessible, scalable and requires a straightforward initial setup process to get started". Databricks is most compared with Amazon SageMaker, Informatica PowerCenter, Dataiku Data Science Studio, Microsoft Azure Machine Learning Studio and Dremio, whereas Oracle OBIEE is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform, IBM Cognos, Tableau and Oracle Analytics Cloud.
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