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    Databricks Data Intelligence Platform

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/ADatabricks 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

    Weights & Biases

    Score10 out of 10
    N/AWeights & Biases helps machine learning teams build better models. Practitioners can debug, compare and reproduce their models — architecture, hyperparameters, git commits, model weights, GPU usage, datasets and predictions — and collaborate with their teammates.

    $50

    per month per user

    Pricing
    Databricks Data Intelligence PlatformWeights & Biases
    Editions & Modules
    Standard
    $0.07
    Per DBU
    Premium
    $0.10
    Per DBU
    Enterprise
    $0.13
    Per DBU
    Starter
    $50
    per month per user
    Enterprise
    custom pricing
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Databricks Data Intelligence PlatformWeights & Biases
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    User Ratings
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    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (18 ratings)
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    Usability
    10.0
    (4 ratings)
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    Support Rating
    8.7
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    8.0
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    Professional Services
    10.0
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    User Testimonials
    Databricks Data Intelligence PlatformWeights & Biases
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Databricks
    Medium to Large data throughput shops will benefit the most from Databricks Spark processing. Smaller use cases may find the barrier to entry a bit too high for casual use cases. Some of the overhead to kicking off a Spark compute job can actually lead to your workloads taking longer, but past a certain point the performance returns cannot be beat.
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    Weights & Biases
    No brainer to use it when doing ML experiments as it is very easy compared to any other open source tool. You don't have to host anything like in Tensorboard.
    Experiment details can be shared very easily with public using the reports
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    Pros
    Databricks
    • Process raw data in One Lake (S3) env to relational tables and views
    • Share notebooks with our business analysts so that they can use the queries and generate value out of the data
    • Try out PySpark and Spark SQL queries on raw data before using them in our Spark jobs
    • Modern day ETL operations made easy using Databricks. Provide access mechanism for different set of customers
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    • Metrics Logging
    • Hyperparmeters Sweeps
    • Model Artifcats
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    Cons
    Databricks
    • 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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    Weights & Biases
    • Dashboard lags when we log a lot of metrics
    • Improved support for matplotlib charts and documentation of wandb custom charts is not straghtforward
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    Usability
    Databricks
    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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    Support Rating
    Databricks
    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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    Alternatives Considered
    Databricks
    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 it comes to Spark Job Execution. Other platforms need to be self-managed, which is another huge hassle.
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    Return on Investment
    Databricks
    • The ability to spin up a BIG Data platform with little infrastructure overhead allows us to focus on business value not admin
    • DB has the ability to terminate/time out instances which helps manage cost.
    • The ability to quickly access typical hard to build data scenarios easily is a strength.
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    Weights & Biases
    • Made it very easy to track experiments
    • Track ML and Business Metrics improvements across experiments
    • Reproduce runs which is essential in ML modelling
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