Databricks Reviews & Product Details

Databricks is the Data and AI company. More than 20,000 organizations worldwide — including adidas, AT&T, Bayer, Block, Mastercard, Rivian, Unilever, and over 60% of the Fortune 500 — rely on Databricks to build and scale data and AI apps, analytics and agents. Headquartered in San Francisco with 30+ offices around the globe, Databricks offers a unified Data Intelligence Platform that includes Agent Bricks, Lakeflow, Lakehouse, Lakebase and Unity Catalog.

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Databricks Inc.

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Databricks Community

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German, English, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese

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Value at a Glance

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Time to Implement

4 months

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Databricks Demo - Automated ETL processing

Once ingested, raw data needs transforming so that it’s ready for analytics and AI. Databricks provides powerful ETL capabilities for data engineers, data scientists and analysts with Delta Live Tables (DLT).

Databricks Demo - Reliable workflow orchestration

Databricks Workflows is the fully managed orchestration service for all your data, analytics and AI that is native to your Lakehouse Platform. Orchestrate diverse workloads for the full lifecycle including Delta Live Tables and Jobs for SQL, Spark, notebooks, dbt, ML models and more.

Databricks Demo - End-to-end observability and monitoring

The Lakehouse Platform gives you visibility across the entire data and AI lifecycle so data engineers and operations teams can see the health of their production workflows in real time, manage data quality and understand historical trends. In Databricks Workflows you can access dataflow graphs an...

Databricks Demo - Security and governance at scale

Delta Lake reduces risk by enabling fine-grained access controls for data governance, functionality typically not possible with data lakes.

Databricks Demo - Automated and trusted data engineering

Simplify data engineering with Delta Live Tables – an easy way to build and manage data pipelines for fresh, high-quality data on Delta Lake.

Databricks Demo - Eliminate resource management with serverless compute

Databricks SQL serverless removes the need to manage, configure or scale cloud infrastructure on the Lakehouse, freeing up your data team for what they do best.

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Lokesh L.

Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure Consultant

Computer Software

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

8/19/2025

"Brings together data engineering, analytics & machine learning into a single integrated platform."

4.5/5

What do you like best about Databricks?

Databricks brings together data engineering, analytics, and machine learning into a single, integrated platform, reducing the need for separate tools and simplifying workflows. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Databricks?

Some users find the platform challenging to learn, especially for those unfamiliar with distributed computing or specific Databricks features. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Aunalisa Arellano of Databricks

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It's great to hear that our Delta Lake architecture and governance features are helping to ensure data reliability and security for you. We're committed to providing solutions that benefit our users in managing their data effectively.

Kenan S.

Senior Data Scientist

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

6/11/2025

"Data Excellency in the flesh"

5/5

What do you like best about Databricks?

Lowering the barriers to entry for ETL and data cleaning and AI so I'm focused most on data science success Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Databricks?

Databricks AI agent isn't as good as Claude or ChatGPT or Gemini. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Aunalisa Arellano of Databricks

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We're glad to hear that you find our platform helpful for lowering the barriers to entry for ETL and data cleaning, and for focusing on data science success. Thank you for your feedback on the AI agent. It helps us as we continue to innovate.

Akash M.

Data Engineer

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

3/21/2025

"A Game-Changer for Data and AI Teams"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Databricks?

the most helpful feature is unity catalog (data governance) and sql warehouse Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Databricks?

now a days nothing, it is already too enhanced Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Databricks solving and how is that benefiting you?

Data Integration from various sources like mongoDB, Postgres, ADLS, SFTP, SQL server, big query and etc as we get the data from mentioned sources and need to store in multiple data layer (raw data, flatten date, aggregated data) according to business, so its help in segregation based on catalog according to line of business use case.

And ETL (databricks workflow) provides lots of option for scheduling jobs in multiple way as per requirement. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Aunalisa Arellano of Databricks

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We're thrilled to hear that you find the Unity Catalog and SQL Warehouse features helpful! It's great to know that the platform has enhanced your data integration and ETL processes.

Verified User in Retail

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

6/10/2025

"Speed of execution and cutting-edge innovation"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Databricks?

First, I like its integration with Microsoft Azure. Second, I like the computing power of the Spark clusters. Third, I like the ML library implementations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Databricks?

Occasionally, IT jobs fail because clusters could not start or crashed in the middle of a job execution. This is not necessarily Databricks' fault. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Databricks solving and how is that benefiting you?

Databricks provides a software platform that powers powerful, distributed execution of complex code and ML algorithm implementations over big data. This produces forecasts, recommendations, and analysis that power and scale up business processes and support customers, users, and executive decision making. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Aunalisa Arellano of Databricks

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It's great to hear that Databricks is helping you power and scale up business processes, as well as support decision making. We're committed to providing innovative solutions for your data intelligence needs.

Andrea M.

Chief Executive Officer

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

1/30/2025

"Simultaneous data flow management."

4.5/5

What do you like best about Databricks?

- It has an excellent connection with the MLFlow system which guarantees that our clients have access to creation, management, monitoring and progress in Machine Learning.

- It offers professional processes to manage the clients infrastructure and manage all the clusters, all this can be done from the cloud and saves time in collecting data from the clusters.

- We can link several data sources perfectly and simultaneously, this helps collect all the data of our clients in a safe and automated manner, without going through complex data registration process, we can collect a large volume of data easily. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Databricks?

Databricks never gave us any type of negative experience, at all times it was able to offer management, data storage and collection of large volumes of data. With Databricks, our MSP-type functions have improved and have never had any failures collecting all the data of our clients who access IT services. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Databricks solving and how is that benefiting you?

Databricks has allowed the data management of our entire company to be much more proportional, allowing us to work together and integrate this platform with various Apache and ML services. This platform has benefited me a lot, because it has allowed us to completely analyze the data and collecting a large volume of data and storing it in the cloud, collecting data from our clients and managing this data together and working together, has never been easier until it came to this platform. I'm satisfied with the results, since it has benefited data management in our MSP company. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Aunalisa Arellano of Databricks

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We appreciate your positive comments about the benefits of integrating Databricks with various Apache and ML services, and how it has improved data management in your company. Thank you for sharing your satisfaction with the platform.

Komal P.

Business Analyst

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

1/8/2025

"Big data processing software tool of 2025"

5/5

What do you like best about Databricks?

The user interface is very easy to use and simple of databricks and navigation is also simple which helps you to do the things quickly Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Databricks?

Customer support need to improve and they need to recruit people in their team from Asia to overcome the regional language issue Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Databricks solving and how is that benefiting you?

We used databricks for big data processing as we usually cater to US real estate client, we process large volume of data using the datbricks and able to find out some insights and patterns around the data and based on those result we presented the strategy to our clients for implementation and the end result is aslo very much satisfied and we retained most of our US client by giving them such kind of strategic planning. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Aunalisa Arellano of Databricks

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We're glad to hear that you find the user interface and navigation of Databricks Data Intelligence Platform easy to use. We are constantly working to improve our customer support and appreciate your feedback.

Perin S.

Senior Data Engineer

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

6/12/2025

"Good Platform"

4/5

What do you like best about Databricks?

The platform is intelligent and helps me right queries it is good for the business use case Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Databricks?

I still restart the AI functionality is improved with fullest Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Aunalisa Arellano of Databricks

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We're glad to hear that you find our platform intelligent and beneficial for your business use case. We're constantly working to improve our AI functionality to better serve your needs.

Shrayesh K.

Data Engineer

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

6/10/2025

"All in one Tool"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Databricks?

I like how easy it is to seamlessly load data and also the ai facility to attach data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Databricks?

Least helpful currently i guess is lineage for me. It dosent give good lineage diagram Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Aunalisa Arellano of Databricks

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Thank you for sharing what you like about our platform! We're glad to hear that you find it easy to load data and appreciate the AI capabilities. We understand your feedback about the lineage diagram and will take it into consideration for future improvements.

Alejandro B.

Chief data officer

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

6/12/2025

"Best one"

5/5

What do you like best about Databricks?

The data integrator with the different platform. And the control Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Databricks?

The cost isn't the best, and when you have to sell to the company, it's complicated. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Aunalisa Arellano of Databricks

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We're glad to hear that you appreciate the data integrator and platform control. We understand that cost can be a concern, and we're constantly working to provide the best value for our customers. We appreciate your feedback.

Marcos Alfredo G.

Analista analítica auditoria interna en Suramericana S.A

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

6/11/2025

"Databricks: Unleashing the Power of Data and AI"

5/5

What do you like best about Databricks?

Databricks is an excellent platform that seamlessly integrates data and AI, serving as a powerful ally for organizations seeking advanced analytics and intelligent automation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Databricks?

I do not dislike it, Its a great platform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Aunalisa Arellano of Databricks

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We're thrilled to hear that you find Databricks to be an excellent platform for integrating data and AI. Thank you for sharing your positive experience!