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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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Users consistently praise the unified platform that integrates data engineering, analytics, and machine learning, making collaboration seamless across teams. The intuitive UI and strong governance features, such as Unity Catalog, enhance productivity and data management. However, some users note that the platform can be expensive and may have a steep learning curve for newcomers.

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Verified User in Entertainment
CE
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Databricks, the furture of BI and AI"
What do you like best about Databricks?

Best reliable high speed and high availability cloud Data Intelligence platform that you can count on. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Databricks?

Learning curve is a bit high. A bit pricey too. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Aunalisa Arellano of Databricks

It's great to hear that Databricks is helping you achieve close to real-time analytics with large volumes of data, providing valuable insights for your business.

Verified User in Accounting
UA
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Databricks as a full suite of MLOps"
What do you like best about Databricks?

Databricks can handle the end-to-end of MLOps principles in a very intuitive way with different actors on the teams Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Databricks?

The lack of ability to use Python scripts other than notebooks Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Aunalisa Arellano of Databricks

It's great to hear that Databricks is helping you build end-to-end ML pipelines. We're committed to providing a comprehensive solution for your data intelligence needs.

Verified User in Financial Services
AF
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Data Engineering Experience"
What do you like best about Databricks?

The experience in developing workflows pipelines Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Databricks?

The platform is missong an access control, I mean you request access to a object and the flow in the platform Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Aunalisa Arellano of Databricks

Thank you for sharing what you like best about the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform! We appreciate your feedback.

Verified User in Banking
AB
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Drive up your data processing efficiency"
What do you like best about Databricks?

A robust platform that helps to improve data processing capabilities Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Databricks?

Though in my early stages of adoption, the platform is working well for us so far. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Aunalisa Arellano of Databricks

It's great to hear that our platform is benefiting you by improving processing efficiency and cost ratios. Thank you for sharing your experience with us!

Gasmi A.
GA
Data engineer
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Data and AI for evry one"
What do you like best about Databricks?

Using databricks help as to accelerate the data product delivery so new business Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Databricks?

I think that the connection of the onpremise need to be developed asap Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Aunalisa Arellano of Databricks

We're glad to hear that Databricks has helped accelerate your data product delivery for new business opportunities! Thank you for your feedback, it is extremely useful as we continue to improve our platform.

SM
Big Data Solutions Engineer
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Excellent"
What do you like best about Databricks?

It offers a lot for notebook users.Users are easily able to write spark jobs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Databricks?

For now we don’t think of anything else. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Aunalisa Arellano of Databricks

We're glad to hear that you find our platform beneficial for writing Spark jobs and as a one-stop platform for all Spark-related use cases. Thank you for your positive feedback!

Verified User in Retail
UR
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Best analytics platform out there"
What do you like best about Databricks?

Notebooks, Dashboards built on top of your SQL tables, ML lifecycle management. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Databricks?

Learning and onboarding curve has been growing overtime as new products get added. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Aunalisa Arellano of Databricks

It's great to hear that our platform is helping with data democratization, big data processing, and ETL pipelines. We're committed to providing solutions that benefit our users in these areas.

Verified User in Telecommunications
UT
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Great Unified Platform"
What do you like best about Databricks?

That all the open formats are unified in a single place Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Databricks?

You have to be very careful and aware of cost management Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Aunalisa Arellano of Databricks

We're glad to hear that you appreciate our unified platform for open formats. It's great to know that it's benefiting you by avoiding the use of multiple platforms for similar tasks.

KT
Manager
Information Technology and Services
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Easy to deliver to prod yet coat control may be challenging"
What do you like best about Databricks?

It shortened time to deploy a job to prod Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Databricks?

The cost control may be challenging given the complexity of pricing model Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Aunalisa Arellano of Databricks

We're glad to hear that Databricks Data Intelligence Platform has helped you shorten the time to deploy a job to production.

Verified User in Computer Software
EC
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Databricks turnkey services"
What do you like best about Databricks?

It’s flexible and easy to implement using their cloud services Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Databricks?

It’s difficult to forecast DBU costs. Would be very helpful to have better modeling tools. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Aunalisa Arellano of Databricks

We appreciate your positive comments about the flexibility and ease of implementation of our platform using our cloud services. We understand the challenges with forecasting DBU costs and are committed to enhancing our modeling tools to provide better cost visibility and control. We will share your feedback with the team.

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Time to Implement

4 months

Return on Investment

14 months

Average Discount

14%

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