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Databricks vs TIBCO Spotfire comparison

 

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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
6.9
TIBCO Spotfire delivers high ROI through reduced maintenance, increased efficiency, fast data integration, and enhanced decision-making capabilities.
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
7.0
TIBCO Spotfire's customer service is praised for responsiveness and support quality, though some users report logistical challenges.
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
7.3
TIBCO Spotfire is highly scalable, adaptable for large datasets, supports diverse setups, but some users find upgrading challenging.
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
6.5
TIBCO Spotfire is generally stable with occasional performance issues linked to server capacity, hardware sizing, and large datasets.
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.
TIBCO Spotfire faces criticism for limited customization, complex administration, lacking documentation, and inadequate visualization and integration features.
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.
 

Valuable Features

Databricks excels in data analytics with a user-friendly interface, SQL-Python integration, collaboration, scalability, and diverse language support.
TIBCO Spotfire provides advanced analytics, interactive visualizations, and flexible data integrations, enhancing data exploration for diverse organizational 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)
TIBCO Spotfire
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
69
Ranking in other categories
BI (Business Intelligence) Tools (16th)
 

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.
Mohsin Pathan - PeerSpot reviewer
Flexible, offers a single pane of glass, and is highly customizable
There's one area I see that specifically needs improvement. That is when you do the data loading. It is slow. For historical data, when you talk about gigabytes of data, terabytes of data, then it becomes prolonged. Loading could be improved. That's one part. That is actually there with every tool. I would not say that this is a specific problem with Spotfire. However, it is a problem with all the BI tools. That is one area which can be improved. When you are doing analytics, you see that the value has to come perfect. There was a missing feature of alerting out of the box within Spotfire. However, they have released this in version 12.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
17%
Computer Software Company
11%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Healthcare Company
6%
Manufacturing Company
19%
Financial Services Firm
13%
Computer Software Company
11%
Energy/Utilities Company
10%
 

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 TIBCO Spotfire?
TIBCO Spotfire is easy to use. We initiated Spotfire as POC, with support from a tech team based in South Africa. While they assisted with the setup, we conducted the POC ourselves.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for TIBCO Spotfire?
Compared to other tools, Spotfire's pricing is competitive, especially with its enterprise licensing.
What needs improvement with TIBCO Spotfire?
Spotfire requires better documentation. Unlike competitors like Power BI and Tableau, Spotfire lacks comprehensive metadata dictionaries. This makes it difficult to generate usage metrics, which ar...
 

Comparisons

 

Also Known As

Databricks Unified Analytics, Databricks Unified Analytics Platform, Redash
Spotfire
 

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Sample Customers

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