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 most valuable feature of Databricks is the notebook, data factory, and ease of use."
"The setup is quite easy."
"Databricks integrates well with other solutions."
"One of the features provides nice interactive clusters, or compute instances that you don't really need to manage often."
"The built-in optimization recommendations halved the speed of queries and allowed us to reach decision points and deliver insights very quickly."
"In the manufacturing industry, Databricks can be beneficial to use because of machine learning. It is useful for tasks, such as product analysis or predictive maintenance."
"Databricks' most valuable features are the workspace and notebooks. Its integration, interface, and documentation are also good."
"Databricks' most valuable feature is the data transformation through PySpark."
"The implementation was fairly straightforward."
"I think what we're currently excited about is the ability to integrate R. Most of our data scientists use R for their modeling. I heard at one of the sessions, here at MicroStrategy World 2018, that you can put your R scripts directly into MicroStrategy, so any modeling effort that you've done in the past can be transferred into MicroStrategy."
"The convenience of it. Having it on the mobile, so someone has it right there in their pocket most of the time."
"The most important feature is the way it handles ad hoc queries and provides formatted reports."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to build reports, then customize for different groups instead of having to build multiple reports. Therefore, the ability to build customization in the reports for different groups."
"The architecture is very solid."
"The reporting, the dashboards, and the new visualization functions. It is very easy for users to understand their data and dashboards."
"Our primary use case is to deliver all data insights to our company."
"If I want to create a Databricks account, I need to have a prior cloud account such as an AWS account or an Azure account. Only then can I create a Databricks account on the cloud. However, if they can make it so that I can still try Databricks even if I don't have a cloud account on AWS and Azure, it would be great. That is, it would be nice if it were possible to create a pseudo account and be provided with a free trial. It is very essential to creating a workforce on Databricks. For example, students or corporate staff can then explore and learn Databricks."
"I would like more integration with SQL for using data in different workspaces."
"The Databricks cluster can be improved."
"It would be very helpful if Databricks could integrate with platforms in addition to Azure."
"I believe that this product could be improved by becoming more user-friendly."
"Would be helpful to have additional licensing options."
"The integration features could be more interesting, more involved."
"Overall it's a good product, however, it doesn't do well against any individual best-of-breed products."
"I know we are not competing against Tableau, but MicroStrategy needs to step up its game on the GUI side."
"They should give proper industry-based tutorials so that one can learn it easily and implement it based on the requirements. They should give more MMP files so that we can import a whole project altogether and learn from that project."
"I would like to see more integration."
"Sometimes, it has become too complex to upgrade and adjust to the ecosystem."
"The solution lacks good visualization. They should work on the user interface to make it more slick and modern."
"I don't think that they will, but I'd like to see parallel processing, scalable parallel processing."
"I think they're still lacking on customer service. I think historically, MicroStrategy's customer service was a lot better than it is today."
"We've found the scalability to be very good. However, it depends on the environment. In general, it could be much better."
Databricks is ranked 1st in Data Science Platforms with 78 reviews while MicroStrategy is ranked 8th 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, 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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