We performed a comparison between Databricks and Mode 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 provides a consistent interface for data engineers to work with data in a consistent language on a single integrated platform for ingesting, processing, and serving data to the end user."
"We can scale the product."
"The solution is very easy to use."
"The initial setup phase of Databricks was good."
"The processing capacity is tremendous in the database."
"The initial setup is pretty easy."
"Databricks is based on a Spark cluster and it is fast. Performance-wise, it is great."
"We like that this solution can handle a wide variety and velocity of data engineering, either in batch mode or real-time."
"The solution is simple for people from a viewing perspective, not a coding perspective."
"The most valuable feature I would say is the flexibility in editing."
"The tool helps to catch results and review them."
"The most important feature of the solution is the ability to run Python-based scripts."
"The tool should improve its integration with other products."
"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."
"The query plan is not easy with Databrick's job level. If I want to tune any of the code, it is not easily available in the blogs as well."
"Databricks requires writing code in Python or SQL, so if you're a good programmer then you can use Databricks."
"Some of the error messages that we receive are too vague, saying things like "unknown exception", and these should be improved to make it easier for developers to debug problems."
"The integration features could be more interesting, more involved."
"Anyone who doesn't know SQL may find the product difficult to work with."
"Pricing is one of the things that could be improved."
"Mode Analytics needs to improve the overall user experience."
"The solution could run faster."
"I think in terms of User Interface, I would say it can be better."
"The data visualization is cumbersome in Mode Analytics. I want the solution to add a map that has an easy interface. The UI is slow sometimes."
Databricks is ranked 1st in Data Science Platforms with 78 reviews while Mode Analytics is ranked 20th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 4 reviews. Databricks is rated 8.2, while Mode Analytics is rated 7.8. 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 Mode Analytics writes "The solution is easy to learn to use and very informative". Databricks is most compared with Amazon SageMaker, Informatica PowerCenter, Dataiku, Microsoft Azure Machine Learning Studio and Dremio, whereas Mode Analytics is most compared with ThoughtSpot, Tableau, Amazon QuickSight, Microsoft Power BI and Salient.
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