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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Verified User in Manufacturing

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

6/10/2024

"Manager Data Science"

3.5/5

What do you like best about Databricks?

Unified platform with lots of capabilities, open source based. No vendor locked. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Databricks?

Appears to have a learning curve. Not now-no code environment on par with PowerBI. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Janelle Glover of Databricks

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We appreciate your feedback. It's great to hear that Databricks Data Intelligence Platform is helping you manage large-scale data and maintain pipelines effectively. We are constantly working to enhance our platform and address user needs, including the learning curve.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

9/8/2024

"Easy to build data pipeline"

4/5

What do you like best about Databricks?

Ease of implementation and modification of scripts Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Databricks?

Has a bit of a learning curve if new to the field Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Janelle Glover of Databricks

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It's great to hear that Databricks Data Intelligence Platform is solving problems for you by being user-friendly and integrating well with other services. We appreciate your feedback on the learning curve, as well. We are constantly working to improve our platform and make it more accessible to all users.

Verified User in Pharmaceuticals

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

7/27/2024

"Great working with DIP (Data Intelligence Platform)"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Databricks?

Data can be used all through the ETL process and can be governed too. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Databricks?

Data privacy with the AI getting involved while processing the data and the concept of LLMs to be understood by each person in the organization. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Janelle Glover of Databricks

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We're glad to hear that you are enjoying the flexibility and governance features of our Data Intelligence Platform for ETL processes. Thanks for taking the time to share your thoughts!

Verified User in Insurance

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

2/1/2024

"Delta Lake with GenerativeAI"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Databricks?

Open source tech stack, adaptive to change per industry needs Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Databricks?

lock in to Unity Catalog ( not open sourced), No GUI for ETL (DLT is not solving all ETL uses -cases) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

An open source , highly performant , cost effective , highly scalable data lake that allows allocatig platform costs to business users accurately (better than charge back model) . The unity catalog is helps us tunring the dat alake from data swamo ( like in the hadoop world) . The AI assitant is increasing developer productivity. Now looking forward to the sensitive data / PII identification feature Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Aunalisa Arellano of Databricks

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Thank you for taking the time to share your thoughts. We're happy to hear that our platform is meeting your needs for an open source, highly performant, and scalable data lake. We understand your concerns about the Unity Catalog and the need for a GUI for ETL. Your feedback will be taken into account as we continue to enhance our platform.

Verified User in Hospital & Health Care

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

7/15/2024

"services are easy to implement at scale"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Databricks?

I like the Delta lake model, cool features are incremental data updates, change data capture, and streaming data can be done under the hood. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Databricks?

sharing the data out of azure has some limitations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Janelle Glover of Databricks

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We're glad to hear that you are enjoying the Delta lake model and its features. We appreciate your feedback about sharing data out of Azure, and will consider it in future updates.

Pranshu G.

Software Developer

Information Technology and Services

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

10/7/2023

"Data Lake but combined with Datawarehouse benefits"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Databricks?

It offers ACID transactions which is a massive suppport for data consistency, along with this, the leveraging features such as Time travel and schema evolution comes real handy while builidng a scalable solution. In addition of all above,it reduce data storage costs all while not compromising on powerful distributed programming. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Databricks?

With all the features combines, it truly is a powerful tool however, it can be a real challange for new users to master it. For BI users, analysts, who arent skilled with programming, may find it difficult to understand the workflow. Moreover, the community for this tool is currently relatively small and hence minimzing community support. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

The business requires to keep to update powerBI dashboard reports which are ever increasing day by day. As a solution, we are utilizing the lakehouse's ACID, and features such as Schema evolution to clean and transform data and build BI dashboard using the now cleaned data.

This solution has eliminated dependency on our already saturated datawarehouse resources. This has also helped in debugging as all data is processed and resides in one place.Last but not the least, this has reduced costs of our datawarehouse by 20% 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 Data Intelligence Platform is helping you solve your business challenges, such as updating PowerBI dashboard reports and reducing data warehouse costs. We understand the importance of user-friendly workflows and community support, and we are actively working to improve these aspects to better serve our users.

Verified User in Hospital & Health Care

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

4/9/2024

"Decent platform"

2.5/5

What do you like best about Databricks?

I like that a lot of components are built so you just need to use or manage it Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Databricks?

I dont like that i cant install driver and items on clusters to be used by multiple users

I also dont like that a lot of the GEN AI items (transformers, hosting own models, fine-tuning) doesnt work with the given examples from databricks

- makes something simple take weeks to develop Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Aunalisa Arellano of Databricks

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Thank you for taking the time to share your thoughts. We're pleased to hear that the platform is helping with LLM and model development. We understand your frustrations and will use your feedback to address the issues you've encountered and improve the platform for all users.

Ankur J.

Sr Solution Architect at Yash Technologies

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

8/2/2023

"Unified Still Federated Lakehouse Platform"

5/5

What do you like best about Databricks?

A great platform to focus on industry challenges around data and ai. Good part is solutions for those challenges are quickly built, tested and released. Participation during private preview also make sure that these solutions are fit for purpose to industry challenges.

Best features floats around combining data lake and datawarehouse capability to help reduce cost and deliver faster with improved security Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Databricks?

Its integration with native cloud services is still weak, out of the box integration & use with org identify federation is still not mature. Along with capability to integrate with enterprise catalog and buillding a unified metric system for organization. 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 providing a unified view for all your data sources, enabling easy sharing of data with your product team, and offering a central place to apply security and governance. We're committed to continually enhancing our platform to better serve your needs.

Verified User in Automotive

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

7/15/2024

"Lead Developer"

5/5

What do you like best about Databricks?

its good tool to load data and extracts everyday Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Databricks?

it is little bit expensive for spark cluster and their applications Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Janelle Glover of Databricks

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Thank you for sharing your thoughts. We're glad to hear that our data governance features are benefiting you! We understand that cost is an important factor, and we're continuously working to optimize our pricing to provide the best value for our customers.

Filippo C.

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

9/19/2023

"A complete platform for data science and engineering"

5/5

What do you like best about Databricks?

Cluster creation is now made easy through a simple configuration page.

Workspace allows you to organise all your notebooks in one place.

Job mode allows to plan notebook execution and to plan dev/prod pipelines. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Databricks?

Data visualization of notebooks output cells is basic, even if it is good for simple application. Dashboard section could be improved by increasing clarity. These are however minor complaints. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Aunalisa Arellano of Databricks

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We're thrilled to hear that Databricks is helping you save time and improve efficiency in your coding and job execution. Your feedback on data visualization and dashboard clarity is valuable, and we'll strive to make enhancements in these areas.