Azure Databricks vs. DataRobot

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Azure Databricks
Score 8.7 out of 10
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Azure Databricks is a service available on Microsoft's Azure platform and suite of products. It provides the latest versions of Apache Spark so users can integrate with open source libraries, or spin up clusters and build in a fully managed Apache Spark environment with the global scale and availability of Azure. Clusters are set up, configured, and fine-tuned to ensure reliability and performance without the need for monitoring. The solution includes autoscaling and auto-termination to improve…N/A
DataRobot
Score 8.2 out of 10
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The DataRobot AI Platform is presented as a solution that accelerates and democratizes data science by automating the end-to-end journey from data to value and allows users to deploy AI applications at scale. DataRobot provides a centrally governed platform that gives users AI to drive business outcomes, that is available on the user's cloud platform-of-choice, on-premise, or as a fully-managed service. The solutions include tools providing data preparation enabling users to explore and…N/A
Pricing
Azure DatabricksDataRobot
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
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Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
Azure DatabricksDataRobot
Considered Both Products
Azure Databricks
Chose Azure Databricks
Against all the tools I have used, Azure Databricks is by far the most superior of them all! Why, you ask? The UI is modern, the features are never ending and they keep adding new features. And to quote Apple, "It just works!"
Far ahead of the competition, the delta lakehouse …
DataRobot
Chose DataRobot
DataRobot is more friction-less and comprehensive enough to tackle a majority of our use cases.
Chose DataRobot
I've done machine learning through python before, however having to code and test each model individually was very time consuming and required a lot of expertise. The data Robot approach, is an excellent way of getting to a well placed starting point. You can then pick up the …
Chose DataRobot
DataRobot outperforms SPSS in terms of speed and efficiency. While I continue to rely on SPSS for tasks like data cleanup and data engineering, I have noticed that DataRobot significantly excels when it comes to building models. Its speed and user-friendly interface make it the …
Chose DataRobot
Comparable to H2O but my company chose DataRobot so that's why I'm using it. Pricing is reasonable and the feature coverage is probably better from an end-to-end perspective. DataRobot has less flexibility than Amazon SageMaker but is a lot simpler to use, which again for a …
Chose DataRobot
Alteryx is more of data processing only with user-friendly interface for non-technical users. Data Robot is more than that and can provide intelligent models for machine learning.
Chose DataRobot
Better user interface and collaborative capabilities to enable easy explanation among business partners with the platforms insightful visualizations.
Chose DataRobot
I have not used any comparable products. Compared to using commonly available open source libraries for machine learning, DataRobot automatically manages the partition of data, pre-processing of data, construction of processing pipelines and the evaluation of models on an …
Chose DataRobot
Robots vs. Robots. It was necessarily me who selected DR instead, but having used both, I find that DR is better suited to our needs and is just more accessible. You don't need to be a complete expert in the field to be able to use DR's platform, more just being able to …
Chose DataRobot
When we ran the purchase process, two factors were critical: price of course and the customer success service as we were new in this datascience world. H2O and DataRobot were the finalists (Dataiku too expensive for our needs), but we decide to choose DataRobot as they give us …
Chose DataRobot
DataRobot provided the perfect balance of features and price points. The other tools we tried were very expensive and provided extra things that we really didn't need. Some of the other tools also required you to host them on a server at your institution or pay for their cloud …
Chose DataRobot
We consistently return to DataRobot for its ease of use and ability to get the job done without major hurdles. Thus far, we just haven't found that in other products.
H2O.ai (Driverless AI): several test models did not complete, and H2O.ai team could not explain why.
Sagemaker:…
Chose DataRobot
At the time DataRobot provided a more automatized and complete variety of pre-trained models and ready-to-use solutions.
Chose DataRobot
We've just had an intro but DataRobot is much more specialized in predictive analytics. Dataiku seems for me a platform that aims to cover a little bit all the steps or processes of a D&A team and with this approach, you may be doing a trade-off in quality and power
Chose DataRobot
The ease of use has been one significant factor and productionizing is the second one that stands out. Comparision across various models
Chose DataRobot
DataRobot is the product that seemed to have the most professional platform all in all. It was also the best one for the second part of the model development, which is monitoring what the model is doing in production and governing what that model was doing, giving us the …
Chose DataRobot
Amazon SageMaker and Python IDLE
Chose DataRobot
DataRobot is far easier to implement and much easier to master. The license cost considerations are more economically favorable also.
Features
Azure DatabricksDataRobot
Platform Connectivity
Comparison of Platform Connectivity features of Product A and Product B
Azure Databricks
8.1
Ratings
3% below category average
DataRobot
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Connect to Multiple Data Sources6.20 Ratings00 Ratings
Extend Existing Data Sources9.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Automatic Data Format Detection9.00 Ratings00 Ratings
MDM Integration8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Data Exploration
Comparison of Data Exploration features of Product A and Product B
Azure Databricks
6.4
Ratings
27% below category average
DataRobot
-
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Visualization5.90 Ratings00 Ratings
Interactive Data Analysis6.90 Ratings00 Ratings
Data Preparation
Comparison of Data Preparation features of Product A and Product B
Azure Databricks
8.0
Ratings
2% below category average
DataRobot
-
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Interactive Data Cleaning and Enrichment7.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Data Transformations9.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Data Encryption9.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Built-in Processors7.10 Ratings00 Ratings
Platform Data Modeling
Comparison of Platform Data Modeling features of Product A and Product B
Azure Databricks
8.3
Ratings
1% below category average
DataRobot
-
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Multiple Model Development Languages and Tools8.10 Ratings00 Ratings
Automated Machine Learning9.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Single platform for multiple model development8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Self-Service Model Delivery8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Model Deployment
Comparison of Model Deployment features of Product A and Product B
Azure Databricks
8.5
Ratings
0% below category average
DataRobot
-
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Flexible Model Publishing Options8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Security, Governance, and Cost Controls9.00 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
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Likelihood to Recommend
9.8
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8.6
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Likelihood to Renew
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6.3
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Usability
8.0
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Support Rating
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8.2
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User Testimonials
Azure DatabricksDataRobot
Likelihood to Recommend
Having access to all databases and tables in one place is what has helped me and my team to function better. The in built functionality/access to SQL and Python is definitely an added bonus! The icing on the cake is the ability to export your data into an Excel spreadsheet for additional analysis. If you have less to no working knowledge of SQL or Python, its better to look at alternatives.
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DataRobot can be used for risk assessment, such as predicting the likelihood of loan default. It can handle both classification and regression tasks effectively. It relies on historical data for model training. If you have limited historical data or the data quality is poor, it may not be the best choice as it requires a sufficient amount of high-quality data for accurate model building.
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Pros
  • Consistently great performance when dealing with huge scale data with the help of spark architecture
  • Magic commands such as spark sql, pyspark, scala . This comes really handy in day to day work
  • Integration with other Azure services is super smooth and robust
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  • The breadth of models available to use is helpful and allows much more analytical power than programming them all yourself.
  • The built-in variable diagnostics are helpful when testing large variable sets to see which perform the best.
  • Many of the adjustments on the models are easy to use/it's easy to re-run and kick off new models as you want to try new things.
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Cons
  • Intuitive interface
  • Ease of use
  • Providing FAQ or QRGs
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  • Further improvements to their text analysis tool, to be more like the Qualtrics text analysis tool, would be a great addition. Qualtrics has templates built into their text analysis tool for customer service, quality control, etc, and will automatically slot your text responses into categories associated with certain sub areas of those larger categories.
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Likelihood to Renew
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DataRobot presents a machine-learning platform designed by data scientists from an array of backgrounds, to construct and develop precise predictive modeling in a fraction of the time previously taken. The tech invloved addresses the critical shortage of data scientists by changing the speed and economics of predictive analytics. DataRobot utilizes parallel processing to evaluate models in R, Python, Spark MLlib, H2O and other open source databases. It searches for possible permutations and algorithms, features, transformation, processes, steps and tuning to yield the best models for the dataset and predictive goal.
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Usability
Based on my extensive use of Azure Databricks for the past 3.5 years, it has evolved into a beautiful amalgamation of all the data domains and needs. From a data analyst, to a data engineer, to a data scientist, it jas got them all! Being language agnostic and focused on easy to use UI based control, it is a dream to use for every Data related personnel across all experience levels!
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Support Rating
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As I am writing this report I am participating with Datarobot Engineers in an complex environment and we have their whole support. We are in Mexico and is not common to have this commitment from companies without expensive contract services. Installing is on premise and the client does not want us to take control and they, the client, is also limited because of internal IT regulations ,,, soo we are just doing magic and everybody is committed.
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Alternatives Considered
Against all the tools I have used, Azure Databricks is by far the most superior of them all! Why, you ask? The UI is modern, the features are never ending and they keep adding new features. And to quote Apple, "It just works!" Far ahead of the competition, the delta lakehouse platform also fares better than it counterparts of Iceberg implementation or a loosely bound Delta Lake implementation of Synapse
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I've done machine learning through python before, however having to code and test each model individually was very time consuming and required a lot of expertise. The data Robot approach, is an excellent way of getting to a well placed starting point. You can then pick up the model from there and fine tune further if you need.
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Return on Investment
  • The support team is amazing, they help you at every stage of the projects, from sales to delivery.
  • On a framework level, it has had an amazing impact and has reduced the clients overall data platform costs by a staggering 65%
  • There has been a 40% Manual work requirement on average for the clients when they move to Azure Databricks Data Platform
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  • We have been able to cut costs by not buying leads that we will not be able to sell on
  • We have been able to deploy loan eligibility reporting which brought in new business
  • We have been able to improve the performance of our credit providers and our partners which has helped to retain business
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