What do you like best about the product?

I have been using databricks for a more than a year now. It integrates very well with our cloud providers and divides the work in different workspaces from Dev, Test, Pre and Production environment handlings TBs worth of data seamlessly.

What do you dislike about the product?

I think the cluster activation time could be improved. Also it is slow when it comes to fetch data from legacy systems like SQL server.
That takes up a lot of time

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

We use databricks as our data warehouse and also as the source that is used by data analysts in the organisation. The intelligence platform helps write code seamlessly and deliver much faster compared. We have reduced the resolve time from 2 weeks to 3-4 days.

What do you like best about the product?

The Collaboration of everything on one platform - MLflow, SQL, Warehouse, Data analyst tools and data engineer tools makes learning of different roles and new verticals easy to process.

What do you dislike about the product?

AI integration can be improvised, can provide more credits for their different teir plans, should add more data visualisation support

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Bringing all the team on a single platform makes integration and pipelining things a lot easier, apart from support from databricks having things open-source delta and unity catalog this becomes much more versatile for us

What do you like best about the product?

Everything was excellent ,The most important thing was the user friendly

What do you dislike about the product?

Nothing ,every thing was excellent ,No other dislilke

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Unified Data Management
Problem: Managing diverse data types (structured, unstructured, and semi-structured) across different storage systems (data lakes, data warehouses) often leads to silos, complexity, and inefficiency.
Solution: Databricks provides a unified platform for all types of data through Delta Lake, which combines the scalability of data lakes with the performance and governance of data warehouses.
Benefit: You get a single platform to manage both batch and streaming data efficiently, reducing complexity and improving scalability. This simplifies your pipeline and reduces costs by eliminating the need for multiple tools.
2. Collaboration Between Teams
Problem: Data engineers, data scientists, and business analysts often work in silos with different tools, which slows down collaboration and innovation.
Solution: Databricks enables collaborative development with tools like Databricks Notebooks for coding, visualization, and sharing insights in real-time across teams.
Benefit: This improves communication and accelerates the development of data-driven applications, like the music recommendation system you're building, by allowing different teams to work together seamlessly.
3. Scalability and Performance
Problem: Processing large datasets can be slow and resource-intensive with traditional data platforms, leading to performance bottlenecks.
Solution: Databricks leverages Apache Spark to provide high-performance distributed data processing, enabling you to process massive datasets quickly.
Benefit: Faster data processing means quicker insights, helping you manage large data flows more effectively in real-time pipelines like the one you are working on with Databricks.
4. Data Governance and Security
Problem: As data volumes grow, ensuring data quality, compliance, and security becomes challenging, especially in industries with strict regulations.
Solution: Databricks includes comprehensive data governance features, including data lineage tracking, access controls, and auditing capabilities, all integrated within the platform.
Benefit: This makes it easier for you to manage data governance for compliance and audit needs, ensuring secure access to data and making sure your data workflows are compliant with regulations.
5. AI and ML Enablement
Problem: Building and deploying machine learning models often requires specialized tools, which can be hard to integrate with data platforms.
Solution: Databricks integrates directly with tools like MLflow for managing the full ML lifecycle, from model training to deployment.
Benefit: This allows you to integrate machine learning models into your application easily, enabling more advanced analytics and AI-driven features such as emotion-based music recommendations.
6. Real-Time Data Processing
Problem: Many organizations struggle to process and analyze real-time data effectively.
Solution: Databricks supports real-time data streaming, enabling companies to process and analyze data as it arrives.
Benefit: For real-time applications, like the music recommendation system you’re working on, this allows instant processing of data inputs (such as user emotions or age), ensuring timely and relevant recommendations.

What do you like best about the product?

he Databricks Data Intelligence Platform is highly regarded for several reasons:

Unified Data Management: It combines the best features of data lakes and data warehouses into a single platform, known as the Lakehouse. This allows for seamless management of both structured and unstructured data.

Scalability and Performance: The platform is designed to handle large-scale data processing and analytics, making it suitable for enterprises of all sizes. It offers robust scalability and high performance2.
Open Source Integration: Databricks embraces open-source technologies like Apache Spark, Delta Lake, and

What do you dislike about the product?

Cost: Some users find the pricing to be on the higher side, especially for smaller organizations or individual users.

Complexity: Despite its powerful features, the platform can be complex to set up and manage, particularly for those who are new to data engineering and analytics.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Data Silos: By unifying data lakes and data warehouses into a single Lakehouse architecture, Databricks eliminates data silos. This ensures that all data, whether structured or unstructured, is accessible from one platform.

Scalability Issues: The platform is designed to handle large-scale data processing, making it suitable for enterprises of all sizes.

What do you like best about the product?

The use of ETL to extract data and then process within same platform reduces the need to maintain multiple platforms

What do you dislike about the product?

A bit tough to learn at first shot but if you give some of your precious time it helps in saving a lot of your time in return

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

It helps me to write scripts in my own python language and SQL usage too and we can evaluate the code and also amke it sharable for others to collaborate and do things wisely

What do you like best about the product?

Ease of implementation and modification of scripts

What do you dislike about the product?

Has a bit of a learning curve if new to the field

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

User friendly and ease of integration with other services

What do you like best about the product?

The best part of databricks data intelligence is that it's very simple to use and have lot of fetures that helps us develope data pipeline and AI, and it help us us to easy implemet GenAI mostly RAG in production. LakeFlow made inetegration very esy with different sources as low code no code approch.

What do you dislike about the product?

Currently I think we don't have such dislike things in databricks as it's enabling new feature on daily basis and it's helping developers and analyist most.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Problems: There is a complex land of the data to be secure and it needs security, privacy & governance over variety of sources that lead into error prone system.

Solution: Databricks provides security features for data governance, access controls and compliance to secure the data using Unity Catalog.

What do you like best about the product?

What I like best about Databricks is how it brings everything into one place—it makes working with big data and running machine learning tasks easy and fast. Plus, it allows teams to collaborate smoothly, saving time and effort.

What do you dislike about the product?

What I dislike about Databricks is that it can be a bit overwhelming for beginners, and the cost can add up quickly if you're not careful with how you use resources.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Databricks helps solve the problem of handling large amounts of data by making it easy to analyze, process, and share insights quickly. It's benefiting me by saving time and allowing my team to collaborate more effectively on data projects, all in one platform.

What do you like best about the product?

i like easy to use interface with strong features supporting and helping in data transformation and implementing data pipeline quickly. i also like it has capability to be used by data analyst using query and result in dashboard , data engineer using notebooks, workflow, CDC, Timetravel, DLT and data scientist with ML model all in one intelligent interface.

What do you dislike about the product?

i do not like only 30 days trail period and missing update mail from databricks.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Databrick is solving multiple data tools issues for multiple role, IT unified all strong features by provding data lakehouse with ETL, warehouse , ML feature support on top of external cloud host with GEN AI capability too. I am using databrick in my current engagement and it is helping me as simple and strong tool to ingest and transform data from bronze to gold layer using workflows.

What do you like best about the product?

Ai and ml analytics would be the great tool that would be useful for the etl/elt process

What do you dislike about the product?

Nothing anything is good with the great interface and fast response thank you

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Yes it would be very great to use the tool very easy to use