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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Colette Chavalia

Value at a Glance

Averages based on real user reviews.

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 Food & Beverages

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

12/21/2022

"A lot easier to use than other tools I have used before."

4/5

What do you like best about Databricks?

Python notebooks that abstract away a lot of the complexity e.g. packages and infrastructure. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Databricks?

The drop down menu/tool bar in the UI sometimes feels a bit clunky. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Aunalisa Arellano of Databricks

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Thank you for sharing your experience with our platform. We understand the importance of streamlining data pipelines and are pleased to hear that it has been beneficial for your team.

Max C.

Senior Software Engineer

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

12/15/2022

"Databricks is a very reliable way to run Spark"

3.5/5

What do you like best about Databricks?

Databricks is the most reliable and flexible way to run Spark applications for data engineering workloads. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Databricks?

Databricks is at the top end of the market on pricing. 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 process large volumes of data in a cost-effective and timely manner. Thanks for taking the time to leave a review!

Verified User in Computer Software

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

12/21/2022

"Databricks is great"

5/5

What do you like best about Databricks?

I like the simple user interface that allows me to run spark without having to do much configuration. The Terraform support is also great. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Databricks?

Databricks runtime is not available locally to run unit tests, so some workarounds have to be made for that. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Aunalisa Arellano of Databricks

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Thank you for sharing your experience! We're pleased to hear that you find the user interface and Terraform support valuable. Thanks for taking the time to leave a review!

Verified User in Food & Beverages

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

12/21/2022

"A platform that connects the work Data Engineers, Data Analysts and Data Scientists all in one place"

5/5

What do you like best about Databricks?

- Delta Lake & Lakehouse architecture for streaming and batch operations

- Databricks Academy provides hands-on learning and support

- Interact with Databricks resources via Terraform Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Databricks?

- Orchestration of pipelines could be improved. We currently use an external product to orchestrate our Databricks Spark jobs. 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 you build reliable data pipelines, support ACID transactions, and benefit from the strong Databricks community.

Pradeep S.

Team Lead

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

6/30/2022

"Build fast and reliable data pipelines batch/streaming supporting unstructured and structured data"

5/5

What do you like best about Databricks?

Data Governance and Simplified Schema.

Support for unstructured along with structured data enabling support for any use cases to build machine learning, business intelligence, and streaming features. Also support Streaming Live Tables which is a new feature in latest version. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Databricks?

performance benchmark needs to be verified with other competitors like Snowflake. Looks like(as per the documentation) the latest version is blazing fast. 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 our platform simple to deliver Big Data applications and appreciate the hassle-free administration and maintenance. We understand the importance of performance benchmarking and are continuously working to ensure accurate and reliable comparisons with other solutions.

Martand S.

Senior Data Engineer

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

11/15/2022

Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores.

"Scalable, fast and easy to use"

4/5

What do you like best about Databricks?

Databricks delta lake is the default storage for databricks which makes it very useful. Time travel, transaction, partitioning makes it very efficient. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Databricks?

Until now I have not faced any limitations for my use case. 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 Delta Lake to be useful for your storage needs, with its time travel, transaction, and partitioning features. Thanks for taking the time to leave a review!

Dr. Ernie P.

IT Biz Apps Manager

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

5/2/2022

"The best platform for building the future"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Databricks?

1. The core storage technology is Open Source (Delta Lake)

2. Multiple data formats fully accessible via Spark/Python or SQL

3. Ability to manage code via our own GitHub repositories Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Databricks?

1. Not always obvious which pieces are (or will be) open source vs proprietary

2. GitHub integration doesn't support multiple branches, making it difficult to develop alongside production

3. Hard mode-switch between SQL and Data Science user interfaces feels needlessly complex (though I understand there is some technical justification for it) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Databricks:

Decide up front how much you want to take advantage of their proprietary technology (such as live tables), versus industry standards such as Spark, SQL, and dbt. There's no right answer, but the more mindful you are about those tradeoffs the fewer regrets you will have down the road. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

1. THE single source of truth for all our enterprise data, including Salesforce and NetSuite

2. Straightforward integration of our business data with our IoT product data

3. Elegant console (using Quilt Data Smart Reports) for presenting that data to multiple stakeholders Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Aunalisa Arellano of Databricks

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Thank you for your detailed feedback on Databricks Data Intelligence Platform. We're pleased to hear that it's solving your enterprise data management and integration needs. We understand your concerns about open source vs proprietary technology, GitHub integration, and interface complexity. Your recommendations have been taken into account as we strive to provide a better user experience.

Miguel Ángel F.

Professor - Clustering & Time Series

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

6/28/2022

"Very excited to work using Databricks!"

5/5

What do you like best about Databricks?

The ability to work with other professionals (data engineers and other data scientists) on the same platform. I trust Databricks and believe that they will always provide cutting-edge solutions that make Data Science projects more robust, easy and black-box-proof. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Databricks?

Sometimes I feel a bit trapped in the platform. Solutions like Databricks-connect and DBX are great but still miss a development environment more robust than notebooks. For this reason, I tend to use virtual machine from Azure Machine Learning to develop python packages and use Databricks as a compute platform to run queries against Big Data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Aunalisa Arellano of Databricks

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We appreciate your feedback and are thrilled to hear that Databricks is helping you develop machine learning models and leverage your company's data. Thanks for taking the time to leave a review!

Greg T.

Lead Data Engineer (Consultant)

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

6/28/2022

"One Stop Shop Unified Analytics Platform.."

4/5

What do you like best about Databricks?

The concept of a lakehouse and the simplicity this brings.

I like the notebook functionality and the constantly expanding ability of Partner Connect and link to BI tools Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Databricks?

It feels like an Integrated Development Environment would be a fantastic improvement to the existing UI.

Dbx might help accomplish this with further developments. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Aunalisa Arellano of Databricks

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We're pleased to hear that you find the lakehouse architecture powerful and beneficial in solving early issues with a separate data warehouse/data lake. We appreciate your feedback about the potential for further developments to enhance the user interface.