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Amazon SageMaker vs Dataiku comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 5, 2024

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

Amazon SageMaker
Ranking in Data Science Platforms
3rd
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
7.1
Number of Reviews
36
Ranking in other categories
AI Development Platforms (4th)
Dataiku
Ranking in Data Science Platforms
7th
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.1
Number of Reviews
11
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of March 2025, in the Data Science Platforms category, the mindshare of Amazon SageMaker is 7.5%, down from 9.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Dataiku is 12.5%, up from 8.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
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Featured Reviews

Hemant Paralkar - PeerSpot reviewer
Improves team collaboration with advanced feature sharing but needs a better user experience
Improvement is needed in the no-code and low-code capabilities of Amazon SageMaker. This would empower citizen data scientists to utilize the tool more effectively since many data scientists do not have a core development background. Additionally, dealing with frequent UI updates can be challenging, especially for infrastructure architects like myself. It involves effort to migrate to new UIs, making the updates not seamless. User auditing requires enhancements as tracking operations performed by users can be difficult due to dynamic IP validation and role propagation.
RichardXu - PeerSpot reviewer
The platform organizes workflows visually and efficiently
One of the valuable features of Dataiku is the workflow capability. It allows us to organize a workflow efficiently. The platform has a visual interface, making it much easier for educated professionals to organize their work. This feature is useful because it simplifies tasks and eliminates the need for a data scientist. If you are knowledgeable about AI, you can directly write using primitive tools like Pantera flow, PyTorch, and Scikit-learn. However, Dataiku makes this process much easier.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"The most valuable features are the ability to store artifacts and gather reports and measures from experiments."
"The deployment is very good, where you only need to press a few buttons."
"The most valuable features in Amazon SageMaker are its AutoML, feature store, and automated hyperparameter tuning capabilities."
"The most valuable feature of Amazon SageMaker for me is the model deployment service."
"The intuitive interface and streamlined user experience make it easy to navigate and set up various tools like Visual Studio Code or Jupyter Notebook."
"The most tool's valuable feature, in my experience, is hyperparameter tuning. It allows us to test different parameters for the same model in parallel, which helps us quickly identify the configuration that yields the highest accuracy. This parallel computing capability saves us a lot of time."
"The solution is easy to scale...The documentation and online community support have been sufficient for us so far."
"SageMaker supports building, training, and deploying AI models from scratch, which is crucial for my ML project."
"The most valuable feature is the set of visual data preparation tools."
"I like the interface, which is probably my favorite part of the solution. It is really user-friendly for an IT person."
"If many teams are collaborating and sharing Jupyter notebooks, it's very useful."
"I rate the overall product as eight out of ten."
"Dataiku is highly regarded as it is a leader in the Gartner ranking."
"Extremely easy to use with its GUI-based functionality and large compatibility with various data sources. Also, maintenance processes are much more automated than ever, with fewer errors."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is that it is one tool that can do everything, and you have the ability to very easily push your design to prediction."
"Cloud-based process run helps in not keeping the systems on while processes are running."
 

Cons

"There are other better solutions for large data, such as Databricks."
"While integration is available, there are concerns about how secure this integration is, particularly when exposing data to SageMaker."
"The training modules could be enhanced. We had to take in-person training to fully understand SageMaker, and while the trainers were great, I think more comprehensive online modules would be helpful."
"Improvements are needed in terms of complexity, data security, and access policy integration in Amazon SageMaker."
"Lacking in some machine learning pipelines."
"Having all documentation easily accessible on the front page of SageMaker would be a great improvement."
"I would recommend having more walkthrough videos and articles beyond AWS Skill Builder."
"One area for improvement is the pricing, which can be quite high."
"One of the main challenges was collaboration. Developers typically use GitHub to push and manage code, but integrating GitHub with Dataiku was complicated."
"One area for improvement is the need for more capabilities similar to those provided by NVIDIA for parallel machine learning training. We still encounter some integration issues."
"The ability to have charts right from the explorer would be an improvement."
"The license is very expensive."
"I find that it is a little slow during use. It takes more time than I would expect for operations to complete."
"The license is very expensive. It would be great to have an intermediate license for basic treatments that do not require extensive experience."
"Although known for Big Data, the processing time to process 1.8 billion records was terribly slow (five days)."
"We still encounter some integration issues."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"I would rate the solution's price a ten out of ten since it is very high."
"The product is expensive."
"The pricing is comparable."
"The pricing is complicated as it is based on what kind of machines you are using, the type of storage, and the kind of computation."
"Amazon SageMaker is a very expensive product."
"The support costs are 10% of the Amazon fees and it comes by default."
"On a scale from one to ten, where one is cheap, and ten is expensive, I rate the solution's pricing a six out of ten."
"You don't pay for Sagemaker. You only pay for the compute instances in your storage."
"Pricing is pretty steep. Dataiku is also not that cheap."
"The annual licensing fees are approximately €20 ($22 USD) per key for the basic version and €40 ($44 USD) per key for the version with everything."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
18%
Educational Organization
13%
Computer Software Company
11%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Financial Services Firm
18%
Educational Organization
14%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Computer Software Company
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

How would you compare Databricks vs Amazon SageMaker?
We researched AWS SageMaker, but in the end, we chose Databricks. Databricks is a Unified Analytics Platform designed to accelerate innovation projects. It is based on Spark so it is very fast. It...
What do you like most about Amazon SageMaker?
We've had experience with unique ML projects using SageMaker. For example, we're developing a platform similar to ChatGPT that requires models. We utilize Amazon SageMaker to create endpoints for t...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Amazon SageMaker?
Before deploying SageMaker, I reviewed the pricing, especially for notebook instances. The cost for small to medium instances is not very high.
What needs improvement with Dataiku Data Science Studio?
I need more experience in the sector, which is health. The license is very expensive. It would be great to have an intermediate license for basic treatments that do not require extensive experience.
What is your primary use case for Dataiku Data Science Studio?
I use that IQ since I am preparing cohorts for health investment research.
 

Comparisons

 

Also Known As

AWS SageMaker, SageMaker
Dataiku DSS
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

DigitalGlobe, Thomson Reuters Center for AI and Cognitive Computing, Hotels.com, GE Healthcare, Tinder, Intuit
BGL BNP Paribas, Dentsu Aegis, Link Mobility Group, AramisAuto
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