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."The time travel feature is the solution's most valuable aspect."
"This solution offers a lake house data concept that we have found exciting. We are able to have a large amount of data in a data lake and can manage all relational activities."
"Databricks is hosted on the cloud. It is very easy to collaborate with other team members who are working on it. It is production-ready code, and scheduling the jobs is easy."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to use SQL directly with Databricks."
"The initial setup phase of Databricks was good."
"A very valuable feature is the data processing, and the solution is specifically good at using the Spark ecosystem."
"We can scale the product."
"When we have a huge volume of data that we want to process with speed, velocity, and volume, we go through Databricks."
"The solution is ideal for enterprise-level companies or corporations."
"The most valuable features are drill down, dashboards, documents, bringing everything under one roof, and visualizations."
"It's an open platform. That's also important. You can create your own data connectors. There's everything you can do with APIs. It's not closed like, perhaps, an SAP system might be."
"Comprehensive security control and more."
"Semi-automatic support of implementing date dimensions, including delta to prior year implementation."
"This solution has allowed us to become a top-class competitor among other consulting companies."
"The most valuable features are the Visual Insights and the visualizations."
"Technical support has sent us to rapid response before, when we really needed them."
"The product cannot be integrated with a popular coding IDE."
"The solution could improve by providing better automation capabilities. For example, working together with more of a DevOps approach, such as continuous integration."
"The ability to customize our own pipelines would enhance the product, similar to what's possible using ML files in Microsoft Azure DevOps."
"The product should incorporate more learning aspects. It needs to have a free trial version that the team can practice."
"Implementation of Databricks is still very code heavy."
"I would like more integration with SQL for using data in different workspaces."
"Databricks can improve by making the documentation better."
"Doesn't provide a lot of credits or trial options."
"If they can make it more stable, in terms of the connectivity, that would help."
"From a stability standpoint, from MicroStrategy, I would say it's fairly consistent. I would give it a "B" because there are times where we have issues that are just inexplicable. They go away and then we have no resolution. To me, that's not acceptable. There are just times where our users can't access things and we're not sure why, and that's a problem to me."
"Training would be an area that they could improve upon."
"MicroStrategy is dragging behind other tools on the self-service visualizations, like Tableau. I would rate Tableau as a 10. For the same visualizations, I would say MicroStrategy is an eight, maybe nine. They're still behind on the self-service visualizations,"
"The solution's licensing could be improved because its cost is heavy on the pockets."
"MicroStrategy lacks that community support. You're either stuck figuring things out yourself or paying expensive fees to MicroStrategy consultants for help."
"MicroStrategy should become more user friendly. It should behave more like Tableau."
"We have not invested nor are we planning to invest in MicroStrategy's mobile platform."
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 Data Science Studio, 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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