We performed a comparison between Databricks and Workday Prism Analytics based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Databricks, Microsoft, Alteryx and others in Data Science Platforms."Databricks gives us the ability to build a lakehouse framework and do everything implicit to this type of database structure. We also like the ability to stream events. Databricks covers a broad spectrum, from reporting and machine learning to streaming events. It's important for us to have all these features in one platform."
"We have the ability to scale, collaborate and do machine learning."
"We can scale the product."
"The initial setup is pretty easy."
"It's very simple to use Databricks Apache Spark."
"A very valuable feature is the data processing, and the solution is specifically good at using the Spark ecosystem."
"When we have a huge volume of data that we want to process with speed, velocity, and volume, we go through Databricks."
"The integration with Python and the notebooks really helps."
"Feature-wise, I feel that the solution's stability is good."
"I would like it if Databricks adopted an interface more like R Studio. When I create a data frame or a table, R Studio provides a preview of the data. In R Studio, I can see that it created a table with so many columns or rows. Then I can click on it and open a preview of that data."
"There would also be benefits if more options were available for workers, or the clusters of the two points."
"The initial setup is difficult."
"Databricks has a lack of debuggers, and it would be good to see more components."
"Implementation of Databricks is still very code heavy."
"Databricks is not geared towards the end-user, but rather it is for data engineers or data scientists."
"I would like to see more documentation in terms of how an end-user could use it, and users like me can easily try it and implement use cases."
"There should be better integration with other platforms."
"It is not a very scalable product."
Databricks is ranked 1st in Data Science Platforms with 78 reviews while Workday Prism Analytics is ranked 25th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 1 review. Databricks is rated 8.2, while Workday Prism Analytics is rated 7.0. 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 Workday Prism Analytics writes "A stable data analytics solution that needs some improvement with scalability and data visualization". Databricks is most compared with Amazon SageMaker, Informatica PowerCenter, Dataiku, Dremio and Microsoft Azure Machine Learning Studio, whereas Workday Prism Analytics is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Tableau, Oracle Analytics Cloud, Oracle Essbase and MicroStrategy.
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