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

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Colette Chavalia

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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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Tucker A.

Data Engineer

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

6/10/2025

"Great platform across the org"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Databricks?

Feature set and governance across multiple business units Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Databricks?

Cost. It can be hard to track your prices Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Aunalisa Arellano of Databricks

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Thank you for your feedback! We're glad to hear that you appreciate the feature set and governance capabilities of our platform. We understand that cost tracking can be challenging, and we are continuously working to improve our pricing transparency for our customers.

Ayush Pratap S.

Data Engineer

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

6/10/2025

"Data Engineer"

5/5

What do you like best about Databricks?

The training the overall usability of it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Databricks?

The trainings can be more lab oriented for people. 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's training and usability to be valuable. We appreciate your feedback about the training format and will take it into consideration for future improvements.

Daniel F.

Senior Data Scientist

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

1/7/2025

"Performance of Databricks in Ml - Review !"

5/5

What do you like best about Databricks?

I find that Databricks is totally fit for our requirement and budget in even middle level company like us , it uses Python which is easy to work with and databricks provides live datastream into input channels . I find lakehouse features best and also apache spark provides distributed processing for massive amount of data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Databricks?

It suits our company requirements but it needs a bit of patience at beginning with getting used to the processes since it integrates ml , ai and data processing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

The most important role of datbricks in our industry is apache spark's distributed processing engine.Using it make simpler to us for working with this platform.It handles large pool of data for our Facebook advertisements lead. It unifies different processes that makes our task much easier and made real time processing of data simpler. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Aunalisa Arellano of Databricks

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We're glad to hear that Databricks is fitting well with your requirements and budget. The use of Python and the live datastream into input channels are indeed great features. We appreciate your feedback on the lakehouse features and the distributed processing capabilities of Apache Spark.

Grace M.

Data Scientist

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

12/12/2024

""A Game Changer For DDO""

4.5/5

What do you like best about Databricks?

Databrick is very user friendly, and i find it to be very benificial. The feature i like the most is MLflow as it allows us to keep record of machine learning models. It also processes data very quickly and reduces workload, which is very helpful. Additionally it is cost efficient, and multiple team can collaborate easily.Its Spark support, ML pipelines and DL make it an even more powerful tool for DDO.I find it to be a perfect platform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Databricks?

There is nothing in it that is worth disliking. But in my opinion, for beginners, understanding its interface and features can be difficult at first, but otherwise, it is a fantastic platform, and its features are very powerful Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Aunalisa Arellano of Databricks

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Thank you for sharing your positive experience with Databricks Data Intelligence Platform! We're glad to hear that you find it cost-efficient and powerful for collaboration. We understand that the interface may be challenging for beginners, and we're continuously working to improve the user experience. We appreciate your support!

Priyanshi S.

Business system analyst

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

3/17/2025

"Best unified platform for AI and data analytics"

4/5

What do you like best about Databricks?

It stands out as it seamlessly integrates data engineering, analytics and AI/ML workloads. Their Lakehouse architecture is a game changer as it combines the best of data lakes and warehouse, eliminating then need for complex ETL pipelines. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Databricks?

Cluster startup is slow and time consuming. Price of products are very high if it is not used to its fully utilizing capabilities. 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 Databricks Data Intelligence Platform seamless and beneficial for your big data processing and analytics needs. Thanks for taking the time to leave a review!

Verified User in Computer Games

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

6/10/2025

"Powerful unified platform for scalable data workflows"

5/5

What do you like best about Databricks?

Love that it integrates seamlessly across data engineering, analytics and ML teams. Collaborative workspaces are great for productivity Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Databricks?

Interface can be a bit sluggish with large workloads 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 Data Intelligence Platform is helping to solve the problem of data silos and providing faster time to insight, improved scaling pipelines, and better collaboration across teams.

Todd W.

Data scientist

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

6/11/2025

"Great product for data lakehouse"

5/5

What do you like best about Databricks?

Open source technology with integrated data catalog to manage datalake data Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Databricks?

Sometimes cluster configs can be challenging to manage 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 open source technology and integrated data catalog in our platform. We understand that managing cluster configurations can be challenging at times, and we're continuously working to improve the user experience in this area. Thank you for sharing your feedback with us.

Janvier N.

Data Scientist

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

6/12/2025

"They have the most unified and simplified data ecosystem for data governance, Analytics, AI/BI"

5/5

What do you like best about Databricks?

Unity Catalog and MLOps are unmatched products. Having your data, process, and models all in unity catalog is mind blowing. Oh, also, I have never loved ML model serving more Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Databricks?

The free edition isn’t that helpful since you have to use serveless. You can’t set up a custom environment/compute resources which limit the usefulness of databricks free edition 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 Unity Catalog and MLOps products unmatched! We appreciate your feedback!

Verified User in Online Media

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

6/10/2025

"Databricks has unlocked ML and AI for our data"

4/5

What do you like best about Databricks?

ease of model hosting / serving and our availing to always have the latest and greatest with foundation models Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Databricks?

It is not very intuitive as a platform — lots of different permissions and compute is confusing Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Aunalisa Arellano of Databricks

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It's great to hear that having ML and AI in one place has made orchestration easier for you. We're committed to solving siloed data challenges.

Venkata M.

Senior Data and Analytics Architect

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

6/10/2025

"Databricks as a product is extremely useful and learning is fun"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Databricks?

I like the most how portable it is and support to all different kinds of programming languages Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Databricks?

Workspace UI can be better and easy, navigating between different features could be better Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Aunalisa Arellano of Databricks

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We're thrilled that you find Databricks useful for solving data governance and security challenges. Your feedback about the Workspace UI and navigation is valuable, and we'll strive to make improvements in those areas.