Databricks Data Intelligence Platform vs. SAP Datasphere

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Databricks Data Intelligence Platform
Score 8.5 out of 10
N/A
Databricks in San Francisco offers the Databricks Lakehouse Platform (formerly the Unified Analytics Platform), a data science platform and Apache Spark cluster manager. The Databricks Unified Data Service aims to provide a reliable and scalable platform for data pipelines, data lakes, and data platforms. Users can manage full data journey, to ingest, process, store, and expose data throughout an organization. Its Data Science Workspace is a collaborative environment for practitioners to run…
$0.07
Per DBU
SAP Datasphere
Score 8.3 out of 10
N/A
SAP Datasphere, the next generation of SAP Data Warehouse Cloud, is a comprehensive data service that enables data professionals to deliver seamless and scalable access to mission-critical business data. It provides a unified experience for data integration, data cataloging, semantic modeling, data warehousing, data federation, and data virtualization. SAP Datasphere enables users to distribute mission-critical business data — with business context and logic preserved — across the data…N/A
Pricing
Databricks Data Intelligence PlatformSAP Datasphere
Editions & Modules
Standard
$0.07
Per DBU
Premium
$0.10
Per DBU
Enterprise
$0.13
Per DBU
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Databricks Data Intelligence PlatformSAP Datasphere
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsSAP Datasphere is available as a subscription or consumption-based model. The SAP Datasphere capacity unit (CU) offers an adaptable approach to pricing that enables any workload on any hyperscaler. The number of CUs required is determined by the unique workload, with the ability to tailor the combination of required services within SAP Datasphere utilizing a flexible tenant configuration. The services that contribute to CU consumption are the core application (compute and storage), data lake, BW bridge, data integration, and data catalog (crawling and storage).
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Community Pulse
Databricks Data Intelligence PlatformSAP Datasphere
Considered Both Products
Databricks Data Intelligence Platform
Chose Databricks Data Intelligence Platform
Databricks is a true all-in-one platform, and at the time of implementation, it had more features available to us, making it a clear choice over Snowflake. Moving our workloads from local computing to the servers in Databricks gave our start-up staff a great quality of life …
Chose Databricks Data Intelligence Platform
Compared to Synapse & Snowflake, Databricks provides a much better development experience, and deeper configuration capabilities.
It works out-of-the-box but still allows you intricate customisation of the environment.
I find Databricks very flexible and resilient at the same …
Chose Databricks Data Intelligence Platform
The most important differentiating factor for Databricks Lakehouse Platform from these other platforms is support for ACID transactions and the time travel feature. Also, native integration with managed MLflow is a plus. EMR, Cloudera, and Hortonworks are not as optimized when …
Chose Databricks Data Intelligence Platform
Databricks has a much better edge than Synapse in hundred different ways. Databricks has Photon engine, faster available release in cloud and databricks does not run on Open source spark version so better optimization, better performance and better agility and all kind of …
Chose Databricks Data Intelligence Platform
Databricks [Lakehouse Platform (Unified Analytics Platform)] can work with all data types in their original format while Snowflake requires additional structures to fit the data before loading it. Databricks is open source so potential is far greater.
Chose Databricks Data Intelligence Platform
Databricks provides support for CURD operations by introducing Delta Lake file format.
Cloudera doesn't have support for the same.
Chose Databricks Data Intelligence Platform
Databricks was picked among other competitors. Closest competition in our organization was H2O.ai and Databricks came out to be more useful for ROI and time to market in our internal research.
We could have used AWS products, however Databricks notebooks and ability to launch …
Chose Databricks Data Intelligence Platform
When we started using it, only the notebook experience was mature. However, DB was very helpful giving us direct support to get onto their platform. Really there was little in the way to compare to them at the time. AWS has services but not the same low-cost angle.
Chose Databricks Data Intelligence Platform
I also use Microsoft Azure Machine Learning in parallel with Databricks. They use different file formats which teach me to be flexible and able to write different programs. They are equally useful to me and I would like to master both platforms for any future usage. I do prefer …
Chose Databricks Data Intelligence Platform
Easier to set up and get started. Less of a learning curve.
SAP Datasphere
Chose SAP Datasphere
SAP Data Intelligence, SAP Analytics Cloud, SAP BW/4HANA, SAP HANA Cloud, SAP Business Technology Platform and SAP Data Services
Chose SAP Datasphere
some features are better, other for e.g. big data analysis or ai cases not
Chose SAP Datasphere
Each of these listed software has its own unique strength and capacity that scales well. SAP Datasphere on its end up against them with more suitability for large establishments with complex data ecosystems with scalability support. Also, it avails a pay-as-you-go pricing for …
Chose SAP Datasphere
Three main advantages:
1. cost effectiveness
2. Robust and data friendly environments from all sources
Chose SAP Datasphere
I am only going to talk about the visualizing and analytics part of SAP Datasphere because if I start listing what the whole SAP ecosystem provides, then it would not even be a comparison. In a summary, Google Analytics is high-level. Of course, the introduction of the new GA4 …
Chose SAP Datasphere
SAP Datasphere has robust backend integration tools that makes it easy to integrate non-SAP unlike alternatives such as Snowflake.
Chose SAP Datasphere
Cloud based is the future and will enable significant reduction in maintenance from SAP BW on prem solutions.
Chose SAP Datasphere
Scalability and effectiveness to handle large volumes of data while maintaining consistency with the applications. Excellent with data integrity by eliminating duplications. Magnificent with a collection of data from different sources to get trusted data for making decisions.
Chose SAP Datasphere
The Friendly interface that SAP offered was second to none. The Tracking and tracebility that was Integrated helped in configuring locations quite easily and while shifting of cargo it was never an issue. Distribution wise SKU segregation was never a problem and report …
Chose SAP Datasphere
DWC really allows no code model development and also integrates with a lot of data sources without additional tools as ETL
Chose SAP Datasphere
Compared to the SAP Business Warehouse, the DWC can be operated with the SAC in a cloud environment on the Business Technology Platform. Thus, a single point of entry or single point of truth is given in the DWC, and reporting in the SAC is possible. The complete corporate …
Chose SAP Datasphere
It is very easy and quick to develop.it has good and excellent self-service. The use of state art data platform is very easy and simple. It has a high-performance and scalable data warehouse. It accelerates time to value real-time. It gives data a new level of consumption.
Chose SAP Datasphere
It is user-friendly and has self-service tools. It has built-in capabilities such as a data lake. It backed integration capabilities. It gives data on a new level of consumption. It is easy and very quick to develop. It has a high-performance and scalable data warehouse.
Chose SAP Datasphere
Both tools are fairly the same, but we mainly focused on SAP Data Warehouse Cloud since we had a lot of SAP services that were simple to integrate with each other.
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User Ratings
Databricks Data Intelligence PlatformSAP Datasphere
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Usability
10.0
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7.7
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8.7
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9.0
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User Testimonials
Databricks Data Intelligence PlatformSAP Datasphere
Likelihood to Recommend
If you need a managed big data megastore, which has native integration with highly optimized Apache Spark Engine and native integration with MLflow, go for Databricks Lakehouse Platform. The Databricks Lakehouse Platform is a breeze to use and analytics capabilities are supported out of the box. You will find it a bit difficult to manage code in notebooks but you will get used to it soon.
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SAP is best suited for large global corporations. It is a very complex software and is difficult to come by individuals who have sufficient enough knowledge to master the product. Globally our company only has 1 person to support us in IT for SAP. It is great if you use a more complex web host such as SFCC as you can make connections to SAP for returns, inventory, price updates, etc.
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Pros
  • There is databricks community, which is a free version. It is available for beginners to have an easy start with a big data platform. It does not have every feature of the full version but is still adequate for extremely new coders.
  • There are many resourceful training elements that are available to developers, data scientists, data engineers and other IT professionals to learn Apache Spark.
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  • SAP Data Warehouse Cloud offers free trial for 90 days with free 128 GB of storage and 64 GB memory.
  • Availability of self-service data modeling and analytics on SAP Data Warehouse Cloud enables users to access and analyze data without getting support from the IT team.
  • Without zero coding while collecting, connecting, analyzing and modeling data, it saves us time and operational costs of partnering with external IT support experts.
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Cons
  • Connect my local code in Visual code to my Databricks Lakehouse Platform cluster so I can run the code on the cluster. The old databricks-connect approach has many bugs and is hard to set up. The new Databricks Lakehouse Platform extension on Visual Code, doesn't allow the developers to debug their code line by line (only we can run the code).
  • Maybe have a specific Databricks Lakehouse Platform IDE that can be used by Databricks Lakehouse Platform users to develop locally.
  • Visualization in MLFLOW experiment can be enhanced
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  • SAP Data Warehouse Cloud is quite complex, therefore, some extra orientation or training might be essential, more so on cloud.
  • Secondly, SAP Data installation fee, and the monthly subscription amounts is slightly demanding, and the developer should refocus on changing them.
  • Nonetheless, SAP Data rectified other challenges like flexibility and customization, making us happy clients.
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Usability
Because it is an amazing platform for designing experiments and delivering a deep dive analysis that requires execution of highly complex queries, as well as it allows to share the information and insights across the company with their shared workspaces, while keeping it secured.

in terms of graph generation and interaction it could improve their UI and UX
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It is one of the best tools and a boon to Logistics teams across the globe. One tends to actually process warehousing data so smoothly and the way demonstration is made while in programs it makes it user friendly. The Inventory touch points that one identify is simply awesome and is best part.
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Support Rating
One of the best customer and technology support that I have ever experienced in my career. You pay for what you get and you get the Rolls Royce. It reminds me of the customer support of SAS in the 2000s when the tools were reaching some limits and their engineer wanted to know more about what we were doing, long before "data science" was even a name. Databricks truly embraces the partnership with their customer and help them on any given challenge.
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I would greatly acknowledge the services of Sap Data [warehouse Cloud] because we were struggling before its arrival where we used to get manual data connections and this used to consume a lot of time but after its use, we now are able to connect data easily saving a lot of time and finances.
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Alternatives Considered
Databricks is a true all-in-one platform, and at the time of implementation, it had more features available to us, making it a clear choice over Snowflake. Moving our workloads from local computing to the servers in Databricks gave our start-up staff a great quality of life boost.
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Each of these listed software has its own unique strength and capacity that scales well. SAP Datasphere on its end up against them with more suitability for large establishments with complex data ecosystems with scalability support. Also, it avails a pay-as-you-go pricing for users, and it is widely up for data quality, data governance, and data discovery.
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Return on Investment
  • ROI for us has been tremendous. Time to market by processing raw data in our big data infrastructure has been pretty fast.
  • Non engineers can easily use Databricks, hence helping business customers.
  • Thousands of different data combinations can easily be joined and used by our data teams.
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  • Enhanced our report generation process due to presence of holistic data.
  • Centralized data from all our platforms. This has helped us visualize and analyze all data much more efficiently.
  • It is more on the expensive side from both cost and training perspective.
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