We performed a comparison between Databricks and Pyramid Analytics based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Databricks, Microsoft, Alteryx and others in Data Science Platforms."It's easy to increase performance as required."
"It is a cost-effective solution."
"Databricks' Lakehouse architecture has been most useful for us. The data governance has been absolutely efficient in between other kinds of solutions."
"Can cut across the entire ecosystem of open source technology to give an extra level of getting the transformatory process of the data."
"It can send out large data amounts."
"The ease of use and its accessibility are valuable."
"Databricks covers end-to-end data analytics workflow in one platform, this is the best feature of the solution."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to use SQL directly with Databricks."
"It proved to be a very powerful and useful tool due to its breakdown capabilities, easy reporting features, flexibility in building custom calculations, and the ability to integrate them into reports."
"It offers a wide range of analytics options including statistics and visualizations, as well as prediction capabilities, allowing users to make forecasts based on the latest data."
"It seems quite performant in analyzing multi-dimensional information sets and presenting them."
"I think the most valuable Pyramid Analytics feature is the solution's ability to drill down and dice in the loop. I think it is better than InExcel or Power BI."
"The on-premise version has quite good scalability."
"The features I find most valuable are 'Discover,' 'Formulate,' and 'Model.' I use them regularly to build logic and create reports for my job."
"Pyramid has a wide level of uses, as it's a complete ETL process and has a good level of connecting to a lot of data sources."
"The most valuable feature of Pyramid Analytics, outshining even top-tier platforms like Power BI, is its robust support for DAX queries."
"Overall it's a good product, however, it doesn't do well against any individual best-of-breed products."
"It would be very helpful if Databricks could integrate with platforms in addition to Azure."
"It would be great if Databricks could integrate all the cloud platforms."
"The solution could improve by providing better automation capabilities. For example, working together with more of a DevOps approach, such as continuous integration."
"I would like it if Databricks made it easier to set up a project."
"It would be nice to have more guidance on integrations with ETLs and other data quality tools."
"We'd like a more visual dashboard for analysis It needs better UI."
"Scalability is an area with certain shortcomings. The solution's scalability needs improvement."
"I find that this is quite a heavy, time-consuming tool for developers."
"The general amount of negative comments that I am hearing from my team makes me very wary."
"Pyramid Analytics could improve by speeding up data refresh, especially for large datasets."
"I think the graphic number of charts and components could be higher, at least comparable to Brain Power BI."
"It would be desirable to have the possibility to generate a data dictionary, detailing the original physical tables, renamed fields, and derived fields."
"There is room for improvement in terms of the user interface, particularly when it comes to modifying connections between filters and visual components in a dashboard."
"Even though the solution has a functionality for every step, it's not so well- defined. That needs to be improved."
"There is room for improvement in terms of documentation and examples, especially for newcomers like me who are learning both business intelligence and Pyramid."
Databricks is ranked 1st in Data Science Platforms with 77 reviews while Pyramid Analytics is ranked 16th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 8 reviews. Databricks is rated 8.2, while Pyramid Analytics is rated 7.6. 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 Pyramid Analytics writes "A comprehensive and user-friendly business intelligence for enhanced data insight". Databricks is most compared with Amazon SageMaker, Informatica PowerCenter, Microsoft Azure Machine Learning Studio, Dataiku Data Science Studio and Azure Stream Analytics, whereas Pyramid Analytics is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Tableau, Alteryx, SAP Analytics Cloud and Qlik Sense.
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