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Accelerate innovation by enabling data science with a high-performance analytics platform that's optimized for Azure.

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Accelerate innovation by enabling data science with a high-performance analytics platform that's optimized for Azure.


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Its big data processing capablity and multiple language interface in one notebook
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Naresh N.
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What do you like best about Azure Databricks?

The most impressive thing which I liked about the Azure Databricks is that It helps to simply our Data science and Data engineering workloads. As we use Azure as our cloud provider including Databricks from the same vendor allows us to do all billing without any hazel. The optimised notebook in Databricks help us to write efficient pyspak code which can handle big data processing like a charm. Also it get easily integrated with Azure DataFactory to build some pipeline for automation purpose. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Databricks?

1. We use Azure Databricks to build som code in notebook which can process and transform complex data problems, but when it comes to automate, the Databricks native workflow and job scheduler doesn't give that much features when comparing to other platforms like Azure DataFactory.

2. When we use SQL environment for data warehousing purpose, since it use Photon engine the upfront cost of having it is much higher than other platforms like snowflake. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We used Azure Databricks to handle big data analytics problems. We developed code using notebook which contains complete data integration and data transform steps.

Using the product along with Azure give use more flexibility in terms on management and billing as all the resources are under same billing account. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Pratiksha S.
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What do you like best about Azure Databricks?

As Platform engineer it's easy to use and understand databricks. User friendly portal. Workflows and Computes I am using on daily basis. Catalogs gives very clear feature of datalog, schemas and tables. Databricks customer support team is very helpful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Databricks?

No dislike till now. But sometimes ganglia matrics and logs are not coming poroperly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Processing data very easily. we can create multiple jobs and cluster. It helps to connect to store, share, analyze, models. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Azure Databricks?

It is cool. It gives you everything you need to perform analytics, ranging from Data engineering workspace, to features specially for ML and data science models.

It has features like running the scripts in sql, python, scala and R, which is a huge flexibility for a developer.

These days they have given option to create dashboards also, it means one can create on-fly dashboards to analyse their datasets.

Personally, i love their command like interface (like jupyter notebook) and the way we could configure clusters on-fly. Unity catalog is the recent feature which i am working on. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Databricks?

While Azure Databricks is a robust platform, occasional user interface responsiveness issues have been noted. Additionally, the initial learning curve may pose challenges for new users, affecting ease of onboarding and usability.

Specifically, one need to learn the basics of the various specific techs, like parameterization, configuration of clusters, running jobs on workflows, and a lot of specific syntax which are databricks-specific and not spark in general. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I have written code to ingest data, and perform analytics over the same. It has benefitted the business to analyse their dataset. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Azure Databricks?

I'm liking all the feature of azure databricks specially coding facilities. We can do the coding in Scala, pyspark and using R language. Also the best part it it we can make use of Sql, to query. I used to code in databricks using pyspark and sql features and with this I can do entire ETL process( Exrract, transform and load the data into database). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Databricks?

There is nothing as such which I don't like about azure databricks, only sometimes the drivers are becoming unhealthy due to heavy load on cluster and sometimes to clear ka cache we need to restart the cluster. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Azure is helping me to connect with the containers as well as connecting with the database to quickly and easily read the data and apply the transformations logic in it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Azure Databricks?

I am a data engineer and Databricks integration into azure has made my work a lot easier i can directly spin up spark clusters on cloud and work on big data .The interface is easy to use just like a python notebook and its packed with so many features. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Databricks?

well for me there hasn't been any issues while using but using azure databricks can cost money. You need to be careful about how much you use to avoid high bills.azure databricks works closely with microsoft azure. If you prefer using different cloud services his might not be the best for you. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

As a data engineer i work on big data ,so azure databricks allows me to just spin up a cluster and write spark code in jupyter notebook like setup and all my data is already accesible ia azure storage services. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Azure Databricks?

It has a fexcibility to handle big data and databricks provides functionallity of delta lake so it's easy to read and write data in parquet format that is more faster in processing also delta lake is more usable as deta lake. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Databricks?

No dislike yet, Only thing is that it gives the performance as per Cluster level configuration. So some times it takes higher cost or processing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Azure databricks addresses the challenge of couples big data analytics by providing a collaborative , integrated platform of data processing. It also supports multiple languages like pyspark, Scala and spark sql that gives benifit to do transformations in one notebook. Also it benifiting by accelerating data-driven insights, enhancing productivity, and enabling more informed, data-backed decision-making, leading to better business outcomes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Azure Databricks?

One of the best datalake solutions in the market with efficient data storage and retrieval capabilities. Also introduction of various layers like bronze, silve and Gold allows you to segregate your logical data retrieval Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Databricks?

One of the major drawbacks is integration with third party tools if someone wants to connect to azure Databricks with HL7 spy or Caristix. Also UI needs some modifications in terms of how much data one can allow to be populated from cache Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Serves as datalakehouse solution for storing raw data as well as transformed and translated data that can be used as database for observability tools and periodic data health check Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Dhiraj M.
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What do you like best about Azure Databricks?

Azure Databricks is a very powerful ETL tool integrated with Spark. We can use python, scala , java and sql language to write our ETL logic and then it has its own inhouse hive storage and also it can perform orchestration. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Databricks?

The main disadvantage which I think its relational database model. Which is not powerful as other rdbms but they are working on it using delta and iceberg concept. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Azure Databricks is a powerful ETL tool integrated with Spark. We can use python, scala , java and sql language to write our ETL logic and then it has its own inhouse hive storage and also it can perform orchestration. We mainly using it for writing conplext ETL transformations to cater business requirements. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Gaurang S.
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What do you like best about Azure Databricks?

-Spinning up cloud based Spark environmet in minutes , autoscale capabilities in case of high performance required.

-Multi language support like python, Scala , R , Java , SQL

- Best tool for AI based systems and data science requirements.

-large scale data processing for both batch & streaming workloads. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Databricks?

There are no downsides of Azure databricks as it's having many benefits like large scale data processing for both batch & streaming workloads.

End to end data analytics.

So featurewise there are no drawback at all Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

large scale data processing for both batch & streaming workloads.

-Easy integration with Azure devops pipelines , GitHub

- Collaboration using shared workspace

- Improved Capex Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Azure Databricks?

Azure databricks is easy to use and support all the features like data engineering tools support like spark and mlops tools like mlflow.

Easy to scale in production with minimal efforts Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Databricks?

Few components are tightly coupled those are not flexible to change Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We have huge amount of data which is difficult to manage in traditional machine learning framework. Azure databricks provides support of spark using that we can easily manage our data pipeline also it does support mlops with native support of mlflow using this we are able to manage entire machine learning cycle. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.