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# Azure Databricks

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> Cloud-based data analytics tool that offers data scientists environments for developing data-intensive applications on a centralized pl
> 
> Verdict: Rated **4.7/5** by 10 users. Top-rated for **Likelihood to recommend**.

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## Overview

### Who Uses Azure Databricks?

Azure Databricks provides an interactive workspace that promotes collaboration between data engineers, data scientists, and machine learning engineers.

## Quick Stats & Ratings

| Metric | Rating | Detail |
| **Overall** | **4.7/5** | 10 Reviews |
| Ease of Use | 4.7/5 | Based on overall reviews |
| Customer Support | 4.5/5 | Based on overall reviews |
| Value for Money | 4.1/5 | Based on overall reviews |
| Features | 4.6/5 | Based on overall reviews |
| Recommendation percentage | 90% | (9/10 Likelihood to recommend) |

## About the vendor

- **Company**: Microsoft
- **Location**: Redmond, US
- **Founded**: 1975

## Commercial Context

- **Pricing model**:  (Free version available)
- **Pricing Details**: Prices vary according to the plan.
- **Target Audience**: Self Employed, 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000, 5,001–10,000, 10,000+
- **Deployment & Platforms**: Cloud, SaaS, Web-based
- **Supported Languages**: Chinese, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish
- **Available Countries**: Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, American Samoa, Andorra, Angola, Anguilla, Antarctica, Antigua & Barbuda, Argentina, Armenia, Aruba, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bahamas, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belarus and 229 more

## Features

- Data Visualisation

## Support Options

- Email/Help Desk
- Chat

## Category

- [Machine Learning Software](https://www.capterra.co.nz/directory/31103/machine-learning/software)

## Alternatives

1. [Saturn Cloud](https://www.capterra.co.nz/software/1039147/saturn-cloud) — 4.7/5 (11 reviews)
2. [Monolith](https://www.capterra.co.nz/software/1020667/monolith) — 5.0/5 (1 reviews)
3. [Toloka](https://www.capterra.co.nz/software/1048561/toloka) — 4.4/5 (5 reviews)
4. [SAP Data Intelligence](https://www.capterra.co.nz/software/170402/sap-leonardo-machine-learning) — 3.8/5 (5 reviews)
5. [Create ML](https://www.capterra.co.nz/software/1025424/create-ml) — 4.0/5 (1 reviews)

## Reviews

### "High-Performance Analytics for Modern Data Teams" — 5.0/5

> **Wealth** | *31 March 2026* | Financial Services | Recommendation rating: 9.0/10
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> **Pros**: Seamless integration with Azure ecosystem and other cloud services.
Excellent performance and speed for large-scale data processing.
Flexible environment for both data engineering and data science workloads.
Strong support for Spark-based analytics and collaborative workflows.
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> **Cons**: Steeper learning curve for beginners without Spark experience.
Pricing can be high for smaller teams or experimental projects.
Some advanced features require additional configuration or expertise.
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> Azure Databricks provides a robust platform for big data analytics and machine learning. Its performance and scalability make it ideal for enterprise-level data processing, and the integration with Azure services streamlines workflows. While it may feel complex initially, the productivity gains and flexibility it offers make it worth adopting.

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### "Prons & Cons of Azure Databricks" — 5.0/5

> **Verified Reviewer** | *9 January 2026* | Information Technology & Services | Recommendation rating: 10.0/10
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> **Pros**: Azure Databricks supporrs for different language like SQl, Python, and, Java etc. Its easy to use for new beginners and supports for git and devops integration make it more flexible to work in big projects. 


Azure Databricks supports for reporting and machine learning make it compatible amd unified platform where all developers, analyst, and data scientists can work at same platform therefore reducing cost.
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> **Cons**: Azure Databricks processing engine habe some bugs like null value if timestamp column provided as other data type column. So its need to be fixed. 

Azure Databricks high cost for dashboarding and ingesting data from cloud and on premises data.
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> Overall, Azure Databricks is great platform for data ingesting, processing and dashboarding with  highly optmized engines and supports for various inbuild features.

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### "Harnessing Data Powerhouse with Azure Databricks" — 5.0/5

> **Samuel** | *18 May 2023* | Telecommunications | Recommendation rating: 8.0/10
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> **Pros**: Masterclass in Machine Learning Capabilities, Big Data Analytics, and Seamless Azure Integration with Admirable Speed and Efficiency.
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> **Cons**: Falls short in language versatility and default storage capacity; requires a learning curve and strategic planning for potential data overload.
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> A powerful data processing and analytics solution offering comprehensive machine learning capabilities.

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### "Azure databricks : Not just a Paas tool" — 4.0/5

> **Pranshu** | *19 January 2024* | Information Technology & Services | Recommendation rating: 7.0/10
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> **Pros**: What I have come to love most about this tool is runs on most popular and best in class spark environment. The most sincere availability of cloud infrastructure is undoubtedly a big concern when you are dealing with multi node/cluster distributed programming. It also supports multi language supporting scala, pyspark, spark sql. Super useful.
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> **Cons**: All things said, there are still few areas where azure databricks can improve upon. For instance, the pipeline orchestration is still pretty primitive as compared to its competitors. They are lacking most of most common features.

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### "Single workspace for all your analytics, code editing and transformation needs\!" — 5.0/5

> **Shaunak** | *20 January 2023* | Information Technology & Services | Recommendation rating: 10.0/10
> 
> **Pros**: There are a lot of pros, as Azure Databricks is huge SaaS product offering.Instead of mentioning about what Azure Databricks does, I will just focus this section on pros (which you may not get anywhere else)1) Delta Lake, Apache Spark, Redash,  etc. are open-source projects that are maintained and founded by Databricks team of engineers.2) Top notch and highly available services like Workflows and Photon.3) They will not force you to migrate application data to their proprietary storage systems, you can configure it on cloud for you.5) They provide a flagship service called Unity Catalogue, it helps you to manage the permission within databricks on azure.6) You can use Azure Databricks not only via UI but also Rest API, CLI \& Terraform.
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> **Cons**: There are a lot of features and guides but when it comes to deployment of new features or version upgrade, Azure Databricks team does not provide any intimation. These creates reverse dependency issues for stable pipelines in PROD. However, we cannot obstruct the new changes coming in, but can at least try to comply with the critical changes. Also, there are a lot of outages in certain regions.
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> Azure Databrick is very easy to learn, and they provide a lot of certifications. Their community is huge. It does its work well. We majorly leverage our work on Interactive Notebooks on Databricks.

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