We performed a comparison between Alteryx and Databricks based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Databricks has a slight edge in this comparison. It received better marks in the pricing category than Alteryx did.
"It allows for manipulation and automation, which has greatly reduced the amount of time required per project."
"The drag-and-drop features are useful for data scientists who do not like to code because it is already in the system."
"The ease-of-use allows non-technical business users to directly create their own solutions without the use of additional development resources."
"There are a lot of good customization capabilities."
"Alteryx has made us more agile and increased the speed and effectiveness of decision making."
"The scheduling within the solution is excellent."
"It is efficient in optimizing our ability to get information."
"The philosophy of the citizen data scientist is the key piece, which means the no-code analytics capability. This is the feature that attracted us the most."
"In the manufacturing industry, Databricks can be beneficial to use because of machine learning. It is useful for tasks, such as product analysis or predictive maintenance."
"The solution is an impressive tool for data migration and integration."
"The most valuable feature of Databricks is the notebook, data factory, and ease of use."
"The solution is very simple and stable."
"It's easy to increase performance as required."
"It's very simple to use Databricks Apache Spark."
"Ability to work collaboratively without having to worry about the infrastructure."
"Databricks makes it really easy to use a number of technologies to do data analysis. In terms of languages, we can use Scala, Python, and SQL. Databricks enables you to run very large queries, at a massive scale, within really good timeframes."
"The interface could be improved."
"The gallery could improve in Alteryx. Additionally, if there was a Conditional Join feature it would be beneficial. Since I do not have this feature I have to use Python scripts."
"Lacks an open source edition which would be helpful."
"Alteryx's predictive data models are pretty average and can be improved."
"The solution is improving continuously. They have, for example, just added automatic insights. If they continue to improve on their overall service offering, that would be ideal."
"Configuration is very low."
"It would be great to create the final users' visualization within Alteryx."
"From a commercial standpoint, more options should be available for pricing. The licensing model needs to be specific."
"Would be helpful to have additional licensing options."
"Scalability is an area with certain shortcomings. The solution's scalability needs improvement."
"The ability to customize our own pipelines would enhance the product, similar to what's possible using ML files in Microsoft Azure DevOps."
"CI/CD needs additional leverage and support."
"If I want to create a Databricks account, I need to have a prior cloud account such as an AWS account or an Azure account. Only then can I create a Databricks account on the cloud. However, if they can make it so that I can still try Databricks even if I don't have a cloud account on AWS and Azure, it would be great. That is, it would be nice if it were possible to create a pseudo account and be provided with a free trial. It is very essential to creating a workforce on Databricks. For example, students or corporate staff can then explore and learn Databricks."
"I have had some issues with some of the Spark clusters running on Databricks, where the Spark runtime and clusters go up and down, which is an area for improvement."
"Can be improved by including drag-and-drop features."
"Databricks has a lack of debuggers, and it would be good to see more components."
Alteryx is ranked 3rd in Data Science Platforms with 74 reviews while Databricks is ranked 1st in Data Science Platforms with 78 reviews. Alteryx is rated 8.4, while Databricks is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Alteryx writes "Feature-rich ETL that condenses a number of functions into one tool". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Databricks writes "A nice interface with good features for turning off clusters to save on computing". Alteryx is most compared with KNIME, Dataiku Data Science Studio, RapidMiner, Microsoft Power BI and Qlik Sense, whereas Databricks is most compared with Amazon SageMaker, Informatica PowerCenter, Dataiku Data Science Studio, Microsoft Azure Machine Learning Studio and Apache Flink. See our Alteryx vs. Databricks report.
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