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."Databricks' most valuable features are the workspace and notebooks. Its integration, interface, and documentation are also good."
"Databricks has a scalable Spark cluster creation process. The creators of Databricks are also the creators of Spark, and they are the industry leaders in terms of performance."
"The solution is very easy to use."
"Specifically for data science and data analytics purposes, it can handle large amounts of data in less time. I can compare it with Teradata. If a job takes five hours with Teradata databases, Databricks can complete it in around three to three and a half hours."
"The setup is quite easy."
"The technical support is good."
"The built-in optimization recommendations halved the speed of queries and allowed us to reach decision points and deliver insights very quickly."
"Easy to use and requires minimal coding and customizations."
"Technical support has sent us to rapid response before, when we really needed them."
"The most valuable features are the Visual Insights and the visualizations."
"The data governance leads people to trust the data that they have, and they know where to get it."
"It plays a vital role in establishing a connection with predictive continuous improvement."
"The most valuable features of MicroStrategy are user-friendliness and integration with the different data warehouse systems."
"Project Schema/metadata- Very flexible, connects to a variety of different data sources and is very flexible for many specific tasks. Attributes/metrics/filters created once used by everyone."
"The single stack solution will always be more profitable, scalable, and elastic for organizational needs."
"The stability of the product is good."
"CI/CD needs additional leverage and support."
"The solution has some scalability and integration limitations when consolidating legacy systems."
"It should have more compatible and more advanced visualization and machine learning libraries."
"There is room for improvement in the documentation of processes and how it works."
"The product could be improved by offering an expansion of their visualization capabilities, which currently assists in development in their notebook environment."
"In the future, I would like to see Data Lake support. That is something that I'm looking forward to."
"Anyone who doesn't know SQL may find the product difficult to work with."
"The interface of Databricks could be easier to use when compared to other solutions. It is not easy for non-data scientists. The user interface is important before we had to write code manually and as solutions move to "No code AI" it is critical that the interface is very good."
"The learning curve is quite steep."
"We have not invested nor are we planning to invest in MicroStrategy's mobile platform."
"It would be good if it had greater analytics so we could build these visualizations by ourselves with scripts."
"Our data warehouse is sort of static; negative load and that is it. It is not as real-time as we would like. We are working on building that out first to create more real-time, at which point we will work on some potential integrations with other applications, but I don't think we are there yet."
"Data preparation-wise, it was not so straightforward with respect to getting different sources. Preparing or transforming the data inside and then bringing it onto the dashboard was a bit difficult, and the experience could have been better."
"The online community page of the product is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"I would like to see a single standalone application to control everything from the administration perspective, and also to develop new applications."
"We would really like to see MicroStrategy have some support teams based more in Europe, because for now it seems that there is one person for the whole CE region. That is not exactly what we would like to see. We do know that MicroStrategy supports most places, either in the US or India, but those are different time zones, people, and cultures."
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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