--- title: Azure Databricks Reviews meta\_title: 'Azure Databricks Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta\_description: Filter 239 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Azure Databricks works for a business like yours. aggregate\_rating: rating\_value: 4.5 review\_count: 239 scale: '5' date\_modified: '2026-08-11' parent\_category: name: Big Data url: https://www.g2.com/categories/big-data --- # Azure Databricks Reviews & Product Details Claimed ###### Profile Status This profile is currently managed by Azure Databricks but has limited features. Are you part of the Azure Databricks team? [Upgrade your plan](https://sell.g2.com) to enhance your branding and engage with visitors to your profile! Azure Databricks is a unified, open analytics platform developed collaboratively by Microsoft and Databricks. Built on the lakehouse architecture, it seamlessly integrates data engineering, data science, and machine learning within the Azure ecosystem. This platform simplifies the development and deployment of data-driven applications by providing a collaborative workspace that supports multiple programming languages, including SQL, Python, R, and Scala. By leveraging Azure Databricks, organizations can efficiently process large-scale data, perform advanced analytics, and build AI solutions, all while benefiting from the scalability and security of Azure. Key Features and Functionality: - Lakehouse Architecture: Combines the best elements of data lakes and data warehouses, enabling unified data storage and analytics. - Collaborative Notebooks: Interactive workspaces that support multiple languages, facilitating teamwork among data engineers, data scientists, and analysts. - Optimized Apache Spark Engine: Enhances performance for big data processing tasks, ensuring faster and more reliable analytics. - Delta Lake Integration: Provides ACID transactions and scalable metadata handling, improving data reliability and consistency. - Seamless Azure Integration: Offers native connectivity to Azure services like Power BI, Azure Data Lake Storage, and Azure Synapse Analytics, streamlining data workflows. - Advanced Machine Learning Support: Includes pre-configured environments for machine learning and AI development, with support for popular frameworks and libraries. Primary Value and Solutions Provided: Azure Databricks addresses the challenges of managing and analyzing vast amounts of data by offering a scalable and collaborative platform that unifies data engineering, data science, and machine learning. It simplifies complex data workflows, accelerates time-to-insight, and enables the development of AI-driven solutions. By integrating seamlessly with Azure services, it ensures secure and efficient data processing, helping organizations make data-driven decisions and innovate rapidly. * * * Seller [Microsoft](https://www.g2.com/sellers/microsoft) Discussions [Azure Databricks Community](https://www.g2.com/products/azure-databricks/discuss) Solution Type All-in-One Overview by Avinash Kumar (Senior Software Engineer(Data Science) at Mindtree) Show More ## Value at a Glance Averages based on real user reviews. ### Time to Implement 3 months ### Return on Investment 23 months [ View More Pricing Information ](https://www.g2.com/products/azure-databricks/pricing) ## Top-Rated Alternatives [ ![Alteryx](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Alteryx") Alteryx 4.6/5(893) ](https://www.g2.com/products/alteryx/reviews) [ ![Snowflake](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Snowflake") Snowflake 4.6/5(764) ](https://www.g2.com/products/snowflake/reviews) [ ![Splunk Enterprise](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Splunk Enterprise") Splunk Enterprise 4.3/5(434) ](https://www.g2.com/products/splunk-enterprise/reviews) [ View All Alternatives ](https://www.g2.com/products/azure-databricks/competitors/alternatives) ## User Insights Average based on 239 real user reviews. Implementation Time 3 months Perceived Cost $$$$$ [Log in to unlock pricing and user insights](/login) ## Azure Databricks Integrations (5) What do users say about integrations? Integration information sourced from real user reviews. 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JK Jhcghbv K. Teacher Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 11/30/2025 "Impressive Data Transfer, But Room for Improvement" 2.5/5 What do you like best about Azure Databricks? Huge data celan transfer. And this is mainly use from banking Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Azure Databricks? This is the complex setup . Do not optimisation Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Azure Databricks solving and how is that benefiting you? My huge data clean transfer Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Adnan J.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Adnan J.") AJ Adnan J. BI Engineer Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 6/26/2025 "Azure Is amazing" 5/5 What do you like best about Azure Databricks? Its like a one stop shop for everything. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Azure Databricks? Sometimes the use of python with sql gets complicated. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Azure Databricks solving and how is that benefiting you? I am using 3rd party API's to stage my data into databricks and using that data as a downstream for tableau reporting. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: Organic ![Vikram K.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Vikram K.") VK Vikram K. Data Engineer Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 8/2/2025 "A complete data tool for every requirement and use case" 5/5 What do you like best about Azure Databricks? They are improving the existing features and adding new features for easy integration. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Azure Databricks? Some features are not very intuitive and user friendly live crearting secret scope. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Azure Databricks solving and how is that benefiting you? Running big clusters for spark becomes very easy instead of on-prem systems. Its serverless services are helpfull in reducing cost for exploratory data analysis. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerSource: Organic AK Aman Kumar K. Software Engineer Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 10/26/2024 "Databricks in all you need for any work related to data" 5/5 What do you like best about Azure Databricks? There are lots of things for example: 1. An excellent Data Engineering tool. 2. Support multiple languages like Scala, Python, R and SQL. 3. Support Analytical work as well. 4. We can create and deploy Machine Learning Models. 5. Very fast as build on top on Apache Spark. 6. Multi language support within one Notebook. 7. Compute is extremely faster and cluster options are available like All-Purpose and Job Clusters. 8. Function like cluster pools are very useful. 9. Using it daily and loving it's UI and functinalities. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Azure Databricks? I am using Databricks since 2019, and have no complaint or issues as such. There is one area where more functionality can be added is in FS command (File System). More functionality can give more flexibility to the developers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Azure Databricks solving and how is that benefiting you? We are using Databricks for all data related tasks, be it for creation of Data Pipeline for Data Engineering, for Data Analytics to present reports to business user and for machine learning tasks as well. Along with that scheduling jobs and pipelines. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Organic ![firesavant f.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "firesavant f.") FF firesavant f. 10/2/2025 "Efficient but Needs More Compute Power" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Azure Databricks? I appreciate how easy it was to start using Azure Databricks online, which made the initial setup straightforward. The ability to create jobs that run on serverless computes has been a huge time-saver, significantly speeding up processing tasks. Running Python files and notebooks efficiently on this platform enhances my productivity. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Azure Databricks? I find configuring Azure Databricks and connecting it to Visual Studio Code to be quite challenging. Additionally, I feel that the parallel processing speed could be improved, as it currently doesn't meet my expectations for efficiency. I also encounter restrictions with the DLT pipeline, as it limits the keywords I can use with SQL, complicating my workflow. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Azure Databricks solving and how is that benefiting you? I use Databricks for serverless computing, speeding up Python file processing and notebook execution. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Verified User in Consumer Goods](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Consumer Goods") CC Verified User in Consumer Goods Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 10/21/2024 "Unified Lakehouse" 4/5 What do you like best about Azure Databricks? Unified data eco system capability for DE and ML Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Azure Databricks? Steep learning curve, still evolving on basics Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Azure Databricks solving and how is that benefiting you? Gives you unified lakehouse capability to break down silos in data teams. Being able to create E2E solution in one solution rather than using many solution from seperate companies Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 5/6/2025 Validated ReviewerSource: Organic ST Shubham T. Data Engineer Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 5/15/2024 ""Best data processing and Analytic platform": Azure Databricks review" 5/5 What do you like best about Azure Databricks? About azure Databricks what I like most is,it's ability of providing multiple services for data like data processing,management,analysis. It is extensively used by data engineer for data extract,tranform and load in professional work. It allows user to write basic and advanced transformation logic within notebook. Also clustered is automatically managed by service provider thus user do not need to worry about it. And the GUI and ease of use is simple. High Customer Support. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Azure Databricks? Sometime pricing structure create problem for small business. Starting cluster with high dataset take more time to get started. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Azure Databricks solving and how is that benefiting you? Databricks helps to handle big data with maximum potential,capacity and with ease ,and it very easy to create connection from databricks to snowflake for data loading. In notebook using pyspark,SQL,python language etc we can create complex transformation logic in databricks,which is very helpful data engineer and data scientist. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite SR Sanjana R. Analyst Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 4/7/2024 "Databricks reviews- Best data analytics tool" 5/5 What do you like best about Azure Databricks? It is very easy to use and we do not need to manage the cluster configuration as it is properly automated. It is used by datascientis and data engineer for data transformation and Extract tranform and load (ETL).. I like the Graphical user interfacer and it allow me to use with azure cloud platforms. Also it is less costly then other tools like snowflakes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Azure Databricks? When we are using it with large dataset then it get costly. And the major thing that I dislike is,more dependency on microsoft azure cloud provider. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Azure Databricks solving and how is that benefiting you? It is very helful in writing transformation scripts inside notebbok using python or sql language. Data loading to snowflake is very easy through databricks. Large volumes of data processing efficiently might be challenging but using Azure Databricks it become easy to handle big data with ease,as it built on Apache Spark that offers scalable and distributed data processing capabilities. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Samshitha V.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Samshitha V.") SV Samshitha V. Quality Engineering Enabler Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 9/28/2024 "My Experience with Azure Databricks as Platform Integration Engineer" 5/5 What do you like best about Azure Databricks? There are many ETL tools , but nothing comes near Databricks. We can have n number of complex transformations that can be done in datbricks notebooks using pyspark and Unity catalog is the best feature. Customer support is very good, had to connect with them for some external integrations like prefect. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Azure Databricks? Costing is more, but if you have proper policies in place as organization and have control over cluster usage then can easily overcome high cost. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Azure Databricks solving and how is that benefiting you? Many of our application teams needs ETL processing. So Databricks integartion to our platform made their works easy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Information Technology and Services](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Information Technology and Services") CI Verified User in Information Technology and Services Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 1/8/2025 "My experience is fairly nice" 5/5 What do you like best about Azure Databricks? Its big data processing capablity and multiple language interface in one notebook Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Azure Databricks? Workflows monitoring and ui is not mature enough to handle multiple pipeline exceution Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Azure Databricks solving and how is that benefiting you? Big data processing and it saves lot of our time and space and boost our descion making capablity Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Organic ## Questions about Azure Databricks? Ask real users or explore answers from the community Get practical answers, real workflows, and honest pros and cons from the G2 community or share your insights. [ Ask about Azure Databricks ](https://www.g2.com/products/azure-databricks/discussions/new) ![Aman N.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Aman N.") AN Aman Nigam • Last activity about 6 years ago What is the best way to databricks in ADF 1 Upvote 1 [ Join the conversation ](https://www.g2.com/discussions/26515-what-is-the-best-way-to-databricks-in-adf) ![Avinash K.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Avinash K.") AK Avinash Kumar • Last activity over 2 years ago When data is small how can I reconfigure cluster to automatically adjust . I don't know which day data coming will be small. 1 Upvote 1 [ Join the conversation ](https://www.g2.com/discussions/azure-databricks-when-data-is-small-how-can-i-reconfigure-cluster-to-automatically-adjust-i-don-t-know-which-day-dat) [ View all Discussions ](https://www.g2.com/products/azure-databricks/discuss) ## Pricing Insights Averages based on real user reviews. ### Time to Implement 3 months ### Return on Investment 23 months ### Perceived Cost $$$$$ [ View More Pricing Information ](https://www.g2.com/products/azure-databricks/pricing) Azure Databricks Comparisons ![Product Avatar Image](https://images.g2crowd.com/uploads/product/image/small_square/small_square_791b528c516cc1b08151fa6da3988161/dataiku.png "Product Avatar Image") Dataiku 4.4/5(224) [ Compare Now ](https://www.g2.com/compare/azure-databricks-vs-dataiku) ![Product Avatar Image](https://images.g2crowd.com/uploads/product/image/small_square/small_square_f176b4154a751d10150daa67a57b7dc5/azure-data-lake-analytics.jpg "Product Avatar Image") Azure Data Lake Analytics 4.2/5(37) [ Compare Now ](https://www.g2.com/compare/azure-data-lake-analytics-vs-azure-databricks) ![Product Avatar Image](https://images.g2crowd.com/uploads/product/image/small_square/small_square_5015a6ccbbe12278ba4392c1c0d806be/ibm-cloud-pak-for-data.png "Product Avatar Image") IBM Cloud Pak for Data 4.3/5(90) [ Compare Now ](https://www.g2.com/compare/azure-databricks-vs-ibm-cloud-pak-for-data) ##### ##### Azure Databricks Features Data Transformation Real-Time Analytics Data Querying Connectivity Hadoop Integration Spark Integration Multi-Source Analysis Operations Data Visualization Data Workflow Governed Discovery [ View More Features ](https://www.g2.com/products/azure-databricks/features) ##### Categories on G2 [Big Data Analytics](https://www.g2.com/categories/big-data-analytics) ##### Explore More [Employee communications platforms](https://www.g2.com/discussions/employee-communications-platforms-need-help-choosing-a-solution-advice-needed)[Best software for integrating big data with analytics platforms](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-the-best-software-for-integrating-big-data-with-analytics-platforms)[Best software for compliance-friendly absence reporting](https://www.g2.com/discussions/best-software-for-compliance-friendly-absence-reporting) [What are the best event management services platforms for coordinating hundreds of events across multiple venues?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-are-the-best-event-management-services-platforms-for-coordinating-hundreds-of-events-across-multiple-venues%20)[Which retail media platforms are worth using for a CPG company that wants to integrate retail media spend data with its broader marketing mix model without a custom data pipeline?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/which-retail-media-platforms-are-worth-using-for-a-cpg-company-that-wants-to-integrate-retail-media-spend-data-with-its-broader-marketing-mix-model-without-a-custom-data-pipeline)[Pros and Cons Details](https://www.g2.com/products/azure-databricks/reviews?qs=pros-and-cons) [Show MoreShow Less](javascript:void(0);)