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We've had mixed experience with Databricks, to be honest. The quality and responsiveness of support we were getting was not worth the amount of issues we were s
by dpq 6y ago
We've had mixed experience with Databricks, to be honest. The quality and responsiveness of support we were getting was not worth the amount of issues we were seeing + the considerable cost, so we decided to use "exit strategy to DIY Spark" (using the original post's terms) instead and we're pretty happy so far.
- benjaminwootton 6y agoCost is one thing we didn't really get to grips with. They use a fairly abstract Databricks Processing Unit - https://databricks.com/product/aws-pricing https://databricks.com/product/aws-pricing - and the costs felt disjointed compared to the workloads we were running. This said, cost didn't really spiral or become an issue for us, especially when you take into account the cost avoidance of administering the Spark cluster and all of the tools. However, the pricing model did feel a little opaque.
- mathattack 6y agoTheir sales team is somewhere between Oracle and a pro wrestling villain in terms of sleaziness.