Databricks Data Intelligence Platform
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Databrick the best data intelligence , security and marketplace software
What do you like best about the product?
I liked their AI Featuire and Data security and governance which i think none of the players in the market is provindg right now in the players also they have the marketplace from which whatever tools we needed we just simply use for ML Models
What do you dislike about the product?
Cositng is the high as compared to the features they provide. based on the business size they need to keep the costing of their services
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We specifically used this for big data intelligence and used for identifying uncovered patterns in data and correala tions and by using these patterns we wee able to forecast the market trends from the hugh amount of database which in particulary helpd our business to expand in the new geogprahies and increase the revenues by 20% .
A Comprehensive Review of the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform
What do you like best about the product?
It excels with its unified platform for data engineering, science, and machine learning, fostering collaboration and scalability.
What do you dislike about the product?
It can be complex for new users, requiring a steep learning curve to fully utilize its capabilities.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Databricks streamlines data workflows by unifying data engineering, science, and ML, enhancing team collaboration and speeding up data processing. This reduces complexity and boosts scalability for big data and AI projects.
Transformation Journey with Databricks Data Intelligence Platform
What do you like best about the product?
As a data engineer who has been working with Databricks for the past two years, I can honestly say the platform has completely transformed the way we approach data engineering projects. Before Databricks, me and my team often faced challenges with managing large datasets and ensuring smooth collaboration between data engineers and data scientists. There were times when workflows felt disjointed, and troubleshooting issues across different tools consumed a lot of our time.
Databricks has changed all of that. The collaborative notebooks feature, in particular, has been a game-changer. I can now work seamlessly with data scientists in real-time, troubleshooting issues and iterating on solutions much faster. For example, during a recent project, we were able to refine a machine learning model within days, thanks to the ability to easily share notebooks and quickly run experiments together. This level of collaboration used to take weeks with previous tools.
The auto-scaling feature has been a lifesaver. I vividly remember struggling with performance issues when processing large datasets on our old infrastructure. Now, Databricks automatically adjusts resources based on workload, so we never have to worry about managing compute power. This has drastically cut down on processing times. For instance, a data transformation job that used to take hours now finishes in a fraction of the time, allowing us to deliver projects faster.
Delta Lake has also been invaluable. Before we started using it, data consistency and quality were constant concerns, especially when dealing with large and varied data sources. Now, with Delta Lake, we can trust that our data is not only high quality but also easily accessible and queryable. One particular example was when we had to rebuild a complex dataset pipeline. Delta Lake allowed us to work with incremental data updates, making the process much more efficient and reliable.
In short, Databricks has greatly reduced development time and improved the overall quality of our deliveries. It’s helped me streamline complex workflows, improve collaboration across teams, and most importantly, deliver data-driven solutions faster and with greater confidence.
Databricks has changed all of that. The collaborative notebooks feature, in particular, has been a game-changer. I can now work seamlessly with data scientists in real-time, troubleshooting issues and iterating on solutions much faster. For example, during a recent project, we were able to refine a machine learning model within days, thanks to the ability to easily share notebooks and quickly run experiments together. This level of collaboration used to take weeks with previous tools.
The auto-scaling feature has been a lifesaver. I vividly remember struggling with performance issues when processing large datasets on our old infrastructure. Now, Databricks automatically adjusts resources based on workload, so we never have to worry about managing compute power. This has drastically cut down on processing times. For instance, a data transformation job that used to take hours now finishes in a fraction of the time, allowing us to deliver projects faster.
Delta Lake has also been invaluable. Before we started using it, data consistency and quality were constant concerns, especially when dealing with large and varied data sources. Now, with Delta Lake, we can trust that our data is not only high quality but also easily accessible and queryable. One particular example was when we had to rebuild a complex dataset pipeline. Delta Lake allowed us to work with incremental data updates, making the process much more efficient and reliable.
In short, Databricks has greatly reduced development time and improved the overall quality of our deliveries. It’s helped me streamline complex workflows, improve collaboration across teams, and most importantly, deliver data-driven solutions faster and with greater confidence.
What do you dislike about the product?
Cost Optimisation - While I appreciate the granular billing information provided, predicting costs for large projects or shared environments can still feel opaque. Many teams struggle to control runaway costs from idle clusters or suboptimal configurations. Introducing smarter autoscaling and recommendations tailored to our workloads would be invaluable. For instance, alerts for "idle clusters" or "cost hotspots" in our environment could proactively save budgets and improve efficiency.
Simplified Governance and Security - Managing access at fine-grained levels can be cumbersome. For example, controlling who can view versus who can execute a notebook or job often requires workarounds. Audit logs are excellent, but making sense of them for actionable insights sometimes feels like solving a puzzle. Enhanced attribute-based access control (ABAC) and more intuitive UI-based controls for permission management would greatly streamline operations.
User Experience - The collaborative notebook interface is one of Databricks' standout features, yet there are areas where it could be smoother. Collaboration is sometimes hindered when two users edit the same notebook. Version control feels basic compared to Git-based systems. Debugging within notebooks, especially for non-Python workloads, could use significant improvement. Adding inline commenting, conflict resolution tools, and robust debugging features would take the platform to the next level. A workspace-level activity feed to show what’s happening in shared projects would also be immensely helpful.
Workflow Automation - Include AI-driven insights for optimizing workflows (e.g., spotting bottlenecks or inefficiencies). Enable easier integration with external workflow automation tools.
Simplified Governance and Security - Managing access at fine-grained levels can be cumbersome. For example, controlling who can view versus who can execute a notebook or job often requires workarounds. Audit logs are excellent, but making sense of them for actionable insights sometimes feels like solving a puzzle. Enhanced attribute-based access control (ABAC) and more intuitive UI-based controls for permission management would greatly streamline operations.
User Experience - The collaborative notebook interface is one of Databricks' standout features, yet there are areas where it could be smoother. Collaboration is sometimes hindered when two users edit the same notebook. Version control feels basic compared to Git-based systems. Debugging within notebooks, especially for non-Python workloads, could use significant improvement. Adding inline commenting, conflict resolution tools, and robust debugging features would take the platform to the next level. A workspace-level activity feed to show what’s happening in shared projects would also be immensely helpful.
Workflow Automation - Include AI-driven insights for optimizing workflows (e.g., spotting bottlenecks or inefficiencies). Enable easier integration with external workflow automation tools.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The Databricks Data Intelligence Platform has revolutionized how I handle data challenges by providing a unified, scalable, and collaborative environment. It simplifies processing large datasets, unifies teams across workflows, and ensures robust security and governance, enabling seamless data integration and real-time insights. With tools like Delta Lake and MLflow, it has streamlined pipeline development and machine learning, significantly improving productivity and reducing time to value. By democratizing analytics for technical and non-technical users alike, Databricks fosters a truly data-driven culture. Its flexibility, performance, and end-to-end capabilities have been instrumental in driving impactful results for my organization.
Databricks Data Intelligence Platform: ETL, Scalability, and Job Scheduling
What do you like best about the product?
ETL Pipeline automates batch and real-time data integration and quality data integration. Parallel data processing using multithreading. Scale up and scale down for optimising the cost
What do you dislike about the product?
Some SQL functions are not supported like declare, stored procedure, transaction rollback
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Fast ETL process, support of genie, Handling growing datasets
Performance of Databricks in Ml - Review !
What do you like best about the product?
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.
What do you dislike about the product?
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.
What problems is the product 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.
Databricks - Scalability and Performance
What do you like best about the product?
I really like Databricks Genie, It helps me to identify the error and give suggestions to resolve it.
Also If I ask to imrove the current code to faster performance Genie's suggestion are helpful. It helps to implement the ETL logic in effiecient way.
Also If I ask to imrove the current code to faster performance Genie's suggestion are helpful. It helps to implement the ETL logic in effiecient way.
What do you dislike about the product?
Most of the features which I use are helpful but some sql functionalities are not supported such as Update table using join.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Switching from on-prem server to Cloud with Databricks are beneficial because of follows:
1. On prem major challenge was it's hard maintain the code version and deployment. Using Databricks it's simpler maintain the versions of code and deploy it on different environment(as it's supports GIT)
2. Easy to scale, We can easily scale up and scale down the cluster configuration which causes cost effiecncy, improve in performance in execution.
1. On prem major challenge was it's hard maintain the code version and deployment. Using Databricks it's simpler maintain the versions of code and deploy it on different environment(as it's supports GIT)
2. Easy to scale, We can easily scale up and scale down the cluster configuration which causes cost effiecncy, improve in performance in execution.
A versatile data intelligence platform.
What do you like best about the product?
I liked the MLflow integration with Databricks, as it was a crucial part of churn prediction model for our subscription based service that our team developed. The model analysed customer behaviour data to identify potential risks and suggest strategies against that. Also, the job scheduling feature of DataBricks has automated our data preprocessing tasks, which saved us significant amount of time and efforts.
What do you dislike about the product?
We had trouble while setting up real time data ingestion pipelines. But the issue was resolved within a day because of the quick and detailed guidance by DataBricks customer support team.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Our customer support team needed a dashboard to monitor tickets resolutions time and customer satisfaction score. Using DataBricks, we build a pipeline that pull data from multiple CRM tools. This has improved our productivity as the data collection and report generation is now automated
Simplify big data challenges for better decision-making
What do you like best about the product?
Recommendation engine for an e-commerce platform was developed by our team with the help of DataBricks. The project involved analysing customer behaviour to suggest products on the website. For this project we are required to process bulk data without any performance issues. That could only be possible with DataBricks as the platform is scalable. We also integrated DataBricks with AWS S3 to access data on cloud.
What do you dislike about the product?
Initially, we faced some challenges as the platform has a learning curve, but when we encountered any challenges, we connect with their customer support team and they provided a detailed guidance on every issues that we had.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We have multiple sources of data and Databricksh has greatly improved our efficiency by combining all the sources of data into single platform. This has eliminated the need to switch between different tools and saving us hours of work each time.
Best platform for data engineering and data science
What do you like best about the product?
We used Databricks for its features such asreal time data processing and dat exploration tools for visualizing data.AutoML and Mlflow is one of the best AI integration in this platform.This software is cost efficient
What do you dislike about the product?
Limited tutorials for new users , not beginner freindly interface
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We used this platform analyzing and processing big data and process data from various formats, this tool is really great
Databricks - best integration tool
What do you like best about the product?
Databricks data intelligence platform make integration of data engineering, data science, and machine learning into a single environment simplify workflow. Users can easily share data and models in same platform.
Databricks optimize for cloud environment, this flexibility allows organisation to choose their preferred cloud provider.
Databricks has a large and active user community and ecosystem include a wealth of share knowledge resources and third party integration.
Databricks optimize for cloud environment, this flexibility allows organisation to choose their preferred cloud provider.
Databricks has a large and active user community and ecosystem include a wealth of share knowledge resources and third party integration.
What do you dislike about the product?
I have been using this software from while but didn't find any dislike in it.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Databricks support integration with wide range of data source, they allow users id easily ingest, process,and analysis data from disparate system.
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