Databricks Reviews & Product Details

As a frequent user of Databricks, it has made my life so much easier by simplifying processes and allowing me to develop proof-of-concept designs rapidly. The orchestration of notebooks via workflows provides excellent visualization and enables me to conduct real-time demos for members on the business side. In addition, the integration with Azure and AWS makes it so that Databricks does not operate in isolation and allows me and other engineering team members to transform large amounts of data that is ingested via our enterprise pipelines. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There can sometimes be issues integrating Databricks workflows with open source frameworks, often requiring lots of debugging and trial and error. Additionally, I've been told that the platform can be pretty expensive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Lakehouse platform is a solution that is easy to setup, the infrastructure is easy to maintain and the UI is accessible to a wide variety of engineers.

It allows for a fast rollout to production and covers most common needs of a data company. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The biggest kink in Lakehouse platform is its speed. It does not deliver on the performance promised.

In addition, the Databricks UI is not easy to use. It feels like it's a smartphone app.

On the side of technology, it is slow and expensive, with authorization added as an afterthought.

It's an absolute pain to administer and hard to control expenses. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Since Databricks Lakehouse provided a unified single platform for data processing, analysis, and machine learning, it helped me to work with the structured, semi-structured, and unstructured datas in a single environment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Databricks Lakehouse required me to learn few tools and technologies, such as Apache Spark and Delta Lake, which as a beginner was a bit complex for me to learn. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I love how the platform unifies data engineering, data visualizing, ML workloads and governance, among many other aspects of Data and AI. The company is continuing to innovate and improve the platform and add new features. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sometimes the documentation for new features is too scarce and hard to read. This gets fixed over time but should be addressed as soon as new features are released Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The most efficient data platform that I've used so far from an ease of use perspective. Our business users and data scientists love this platform too. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The cost is certainly a challenge when justifying the usage to our businesses. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The flexibility it has and all the features that work perfectly within the environment for training and putting models into production. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The new editor experience does not work well with a Spanish keyboard Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Governance, offerings like Unity catalogue. Some of the future offerings like Lakehouse AI seem very promising. Would be keen to learn more about the platform and use it Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nothing at this point. The concepts seem great. I would love to get more hands on experience on the same and use it for production implementations and form a better opinion Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I have been actively engaged in Databricks training and I find it very relevant to the work our organization does. We usually have large amounts of data we need to process for our power generation and revenue needs, and I find that Databricks can be a one-stop shop for our automation and streamlining the process.” Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I believe it could be a steep learning curve for someone who may not know how to program or have a general understanding of it. The best way to work around this is to follow training offered on data bricks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Open platform with several supporting capabilities supporting many personas. The company is eager to listen and innovate to help you achieve your goals Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Unity catalog is powerful but seems to have been released too soon. SQL Editor UI Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Seamless integration between spark, pyspark, scala, sparkr, and SQL APIs with Cloud Storages, Easy to use and schedule streaming and batch services with delta lake as storage for all data engineering needs with git integration and revision control. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

UI can be a little more like VSCode or cloud editor to give you more choices, modular code, packaged code for better unit testing, and CI CD can improve the developer experience drastically. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.