We performed a comparison between Databricks and TIBCO Spotfire 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 a scalable Spark cluster creation process. The creators of Databricks are also the creators of Spark, and they are the industry leaders in terms of performance."
"The initial setup phase of Databricks was good."
"We can scale the product."
"Imageflow is a visual tool that helps make it easier for business people to understand complex workflows."
"A very valuable feature is the data processing, and the solution is specifically good at using the Spark ecosystem."
"The main features of the solution are efficiency."
"One of the features provides nice interactive clusters, or compute instances that you don't really need to manage often."
"The integration with Python and the notebooks really helps."
"We used it pretty heavily in gathering data, which goes to our VPs. They are able to base their next revenue planning based on this metric. So, it has been invaluable."
"The ability to create a real-time data mark, using just one piece of software, is the best feature of this product."
"From a scalability standpoint, I would say it's pretty fantastic."
"I appreciate Spotfire's range of visualization options, advanced analytics features, and seamless integration with other TIBCO products."
"It allows users to quickly analyze data from a variety of sources and visualize it with powerful, interactive graphs, and charts."
"R and automation services."
"The solution is an affordable one."
"The out-of-the-box features are simple and easy to use across the board."
"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."
"The integration and query capabilities can be improved."
"Would be helpful to have additional licensing options."
"Databricks could improve in some of its functionality."
"In the next release, I would like to see more optimization features."
"A lot of people are required to manage this solution."
"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 data visualization for this solution could be improved. They have started to roll out a data visualization tool inside Databricks but it is in the early stages. It's not comparable to a solution like Power BI, Luca, or Tableau."
"We would like to see some development in the visualization aspect of this solution, as they can currently only be configured in the cloud, which limits us to one endpoint. It would be helpful if this could be integrated with other tools."
"The initial setup is complicated and needs experience and knowledge."
"I would like more easy-to-implement analytical algorithms. At the moment they include things like forecasts and regressions. They need to add a lot more of these types of things to the product because not everyone is a data scientist."
"The way TIBCO Spotfire is designed, in my opinion, is the reason why it lags a bit, especially compared to other BI tools like Qlik."
"The initial setup can be difficult."
"The solution might be generic."
"Compared to competitors, the UI is quite dated."
"One aspect where Spotfire could improve is its global recognition, especially in terms of support."
Databricks is ranked 1st in Data Science Platforms with 78 reviews while TIBCO Spotfire is ranked 10th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 67 reviews. Databricks is rated 8.2, while TIBCO Spotfire is rated 8.4. 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 TIBCO Spotfire writes "Empowers us to extract insights and provide valuable business analytics to support decision-making within our organization". Databricks is most compared with Amazon SageMaker, Informatica PowerCenter, Dataiku, Dremio and Microsoft Azure Machine Learning Studio, whereas TIBCO Spotfire is most compared with Tableau, Microsoft Power BI, QlikView, Qlik Sense and TIBCO BusinessWorks.
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