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Databricks vs Sisense comparison

 

Comparison Buyer's Guide

Executive Summary

Review summaries and opinions

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

ROI

Sentiment score
6.5
Users reported financial savings and enhanced performance by shifting workloads to Databricks, spending less than on Hadoop.
Sentiment score
6.6
Sisense provides strong ROI by reducing reporting labor and enhancing support, though ROI varies based on region and existing tools.
For a lot of different tasks, including machine learning, it is a nice solution.
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
7.1
Databricks customer service is praised for proactive support and quick responses, with comprehensive documentation reducing direct assistance needs.
Sentiment score
8.6
Sisense's exceptional, responsive customer service, with skilled support teams, enhances user satisfaction through efficient, personalized solutions and availability.
Whenever we reach out, they respond promptly.
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
7.4
Databricks is scalable and flexible, enabling efficient data processing and resource adjustment across diverse cloud platforms, despite cost concerns.
Sentiment score
7.4
Sisense is praised for scalability, effectively managing data growth and user numbers while maintaining performance and support.
The patches have sometimes caused issues leading to our jobs being paused for about six hours.
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
7.7
Databricks is highly stable and reliable, though occasional update issues are quickly resolved, rating 8-9 in stability.
Sentiment score
7.8
Sisense is generally stable with occasional slowness in dashboard loading, rated highly for performance and reliability by users.
They release patches that sometimes break our code.
 

Room For Improvement

Databricks users seek better visualization, integration, user interface, documentation, and scalability, while desiring improvements in pricing and features.
Sisense users seek improvements in handling large datasets, data blending, export customization, integration, and dashboard customization, alongside better support.
We prefer using a small to mid-sized cluster for many jobs to keep costs low, but this sometimes doesn't support our operations properly.
 

Setup Cost

Databricks offers flexible, pay-per-use pricing that varies by usage and platform, considered competitive yet sometimes expensive.
Sisense offers competitive, subscription-based pricing with cost-effectiveness for enterprises, though potentially costly for small businesses.
 

Valuable Features

Databricks excels in data analytics with a user-friendly interface, SQL-Python integration, collaboration, scalability, and diverse language support.
Sisense provides user-friendly analytics with quick deployment, multiple data source integration, and AI-powered insights for diverse business needs.
 

Categories and Ranking

Databricks
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
85
Ranking in other categories
Data Science Platforms (1st), Streaming Analytics (1st)
Sisense
Average Rating
8.8
Reviews Sentiment
7.6
Number of Reviews
40
Ranking in other categories
BI (Business Intelligence) Tools (21st), Cloud Analytics (4th), Reporting (17th), Data Visualization (16th), Embedded BI (9th)
 

Featured Reviews

Parag Bhosale - PeerSpot reviewer
Integrating engineering and learning, but cost challenges arise with cluster management
We often use a single cluster to ingest Databricks, which Databricks doesn't recommend. They suggest using a no-cluster solution like job clusters. This can be overwhelming for us because we started smaller. We prefer using a small to mid-sized cluster for many jobs to keep costs low, but this sometimes doesn't support our operations properly. We need to stay in sync with the DVR versions, and migrations can pose challenges. For example, issues arose when we moved a cluster from a previous version to the latest one. We could use their job clusters, however, that increases costs, which is challenging for us as a startup. Maintaining this infrastructure can be a headache.
Wiboon Thabsuwan - PeerSpot reviewer
Helps businesses save time and offers good integration features
I would say that using Sisense on Linux's platform might not be advantageous for everyone. I am more familiar with Windows than Linux. With Windows, the system performs very fast. Even if your data size consists of like 10,00,00,000 loads or whatever, it works very fast. When using Sisense, it is better to have some people with a very good understanding of Linux. I need more technical people who understand about Linux OS. Only two people would be enough to operate the tool.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
17%
Computer Software Company
11%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Healthcare Company
6%
Financial Services Firm
24%
Computer Software Company
16%
Government
6%
University
6%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

Which do you prefer - Databricks or Azure Machine Learning Studio?
Databricks gives you the option of working with several different languages, such as SQL, R, Scala, Apache Spark, or Python. It offers many different cluster choices and excellent integration with ...
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...
Which would you choose - Databricks or Azure Stream Analytics?
Databricks is an easy-to-set-up and versatile tool for data management, analysis, and business analytics. For analytics teams that have to interpret data to further the business goals of their orga...
What do you like most about Sisense?
The solution's technical support team is good.
What needs improvement with Sisense?
I would say that using Sisense on Linux's platform might not be advantageous for everyone. I am more familiar with Windows than Linux. With Windows, the system performs very fast. Even if your data...
What is your primary use case for Sisense?
For the use case, the tool is mostly used from an analytic point of view. We are focused on huge data size because the last time we worked with the tool, it was very good.
 

Comparisons

 

Also Known As

Databricks Unified Analytics, Databricks Unified Analytics Platform, Redash
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