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."What I like about Databricks is that it's one of the most popular platforms that give access to folks who are trying not just to do exploratory work on the data but also go ahead and build advanced modeling and machine learning on top of that."
"Databricks is a unified solution that we can use for streaming. It is supporting open source languages, which are cloud-agnostic. When I do database coding if any other tool has a similar language pack to Excel or SQL, I can use the same knowledge, limiting the need to learn new things. It supports a lot of Python libraries where I can use some very easily."
"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."
"The solution is very simple and stable."
"Databricks has helped us have a good presence in data."
"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."
"I work in the data science field and I found Databricks to be very useful."
"The fast data loading process and data storage capabilities are great."
"Building apps is easy. You just drag in your data, and then you drag in all the elements that you want on your app. It's drag and drop design, and then you can customize your visuals. They make it all easy with plug and play widgets."
"MicroStrategy's best feature is that it is a user-friendly tool."
"I really like the visualizations. I like how you can put large data sets in there, then the user can quickly go through the data and drill down at various levels to understand things."
"The product is very mature. It's quite robust and an excellent enterprise-level solution."
"You can build once and deploy to multiple operating systems. Also, it resizes in the way you want it to."
"The whole repository side of things is beneficial because you develop it once, and you can use it anywhere, in the Enterprise grade."
"Getting more data to people more quickly. Providing more flexibility for how they use the data."
"The simplicity of MicroStrategy is what I like the most."
"Overall it's a good product, however, it doesn't do well against any individual best-of-breed products."
"There could be more support for automated machine learning in the database. I would like to see more ways to do analysis so that the reporting is more understandable."
"The product could be improved by offering an expansion of their visualization capabilities, which currently assists in development in their notebook environment."
"Would be helpful to have additional licensing options."
"The integration and query capabilities can be improved."
"The initial setup is difficult."
"It would be nice to have more guidance on integrations with ETLs and other data quality tools."
"It would be great if Databricks could integrate all the cloud platforms."
"The In-Memory Capability (cubes) needs a lot of improvement."
"The product is designed for enterprise. A lightweight version would be easier for a smaller workgroup."
"It needs better visualizations."
"We would really like to see MicroStrategy have some support teams based more in Europe, because for now it seems that there is one person for the whole CE region. That is not exactly what we would like to see. We do know that MicroStrategy supports most places, either in the US or India, but those are different time zones, people, and cultures."
"They need to improve on distribution services. There are lack of features which were there earlier with Narrowcast, but they are not there in the distribution services."
"The solution's licensing could be improved because its cost is heavy on the pockets."
"We had some problems with customer service and support."
"We did have issues with stability, and that was because we were co-located with another business unit, and we outgrew them on the unit. So we had to get to a separate physical instance."
Databricks is ranked 1st in Data Science Platforms with 78 reviews while MicroStrategy is ranked 8th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 156 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, Dremio and Microsoft Azure Machine Learning Studio, whereas MicroStrategy is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Tableau, IBM Cognos, SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform and SAP Analytics Cloud.
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