We performed a comparison between Databricks and Pentaho Business 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 has improved my organization by allowing us to transform data from sources to a different format and feed that to the analytics, business intelligence, and reporting teams. This tool makes it easy to do those kinds of things."
"Automation with Databricks is very easy when using the API."
"When we have a huge volume of data that we want to process with speed, velocity, and volume, we go through Databricks."
"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."
"Databricks is a scalable solution. It is the largest advantage of the solution."
"Databricks integrates well with other solutions."
"The simplicity of development is the most valuable feature."
"We have the ability to scale, collaborate and do machine learning."
"We were able to install it without any assistance from tech support."
"The initial setup is pretty straightforward."
"I use the BI Server, CDE Dashboards, Saiku, and Kettle, because these tools are very good and highly experienced."
"Pentaho is an analytics platform that can be used when an organization has a lot of big data storage systems already installed and needs to manage and analyze that data. It has a specific use case for unstructured data, such as documents, and needs to be able to search and analyze it."
"The most valuable feature of Pentaho is the Tableau report."
"Easy to use components to create the job."
"Pentaho Business Analytics' best features include the ease of developing data flows and the wide range of options to connect to databases, including those on the cloud."
"Databricks requires writing code in Python or SQL, so if you're a good programmer then you can use Databricks."
"There are no direct connectors — they are very limited."
"The solution could improve by providing better automation capabilities. For example, working together with more of a DevOps approach, such as continuous integration."
"I would like it if Databricks made it easier to set up a project."
"The product should incorporate more learning aspects. It needs to have a free trial version that the team can practice."
"Generative AI is catching up in areas like data governance and enterprise flavor. Hence, these are places where Databricks has to be faster."
"There is room for improvement in the documentation of processes and how it works."
"Pricing is one of the things that could be improved."
"Pentaho Business Analytics' user interface is outdated."
"The repository should be improved."
"Deployment is not simple. It is not simple because we are dealing with a lot of data; we are dealing with a lot of storage. So, it's not a simple process."
"Logging capability is needed."
"Another concern is that Pentaho is not customizable or interactive."
"We did not achieve the ROI. The work delivered to users had lesser value than the subscription cost."
"Version control would be a good addition."
"Pentaho, at the general level, should greatly improve the easy construction of its dashboards and easy integration of information from different sources without technical user intervention."
Databricks is ranked 1st in Data Science Platforms with 78 reviews while Pentaho Business Analytics is ranked 19th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 42 reviews. Databricks is rated 8.2, while Pentaho Business Analytics is rated 8.0. 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 Pentaho Business Analytics writes "Flexible, easy to understand, and simple to set up". Databricks is most compared with Amazon SageMaker, Informatica PowerCenter, Dataiku, Dremio and Microsoft Azure Machine Learning Studio, whereas Pentaho Business Analytics is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, KNIME, SAP Crystal Reports, Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services and Tableau.
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