Databricks - What makes it special?

[markhamil94]

Hi everyone,

I was trying to better understand the data engineering and the data science/ analytics space, and came across Databricks. I think I partially get what they are trying to do to merge these two spaces together for better collaboration, but I still do not fully understand its technical capabilities and what makes it different from other vendors in the spa Tweakbox ce (like Dataiku, SAS, RapidMiner).

Now, I "get" why the UI can be appealing technical people because it is code-friendly. However, I want to better understand what is so special about their "unified platform" that also does data engineering. I want to hear how different is the company's "data eng Appvalleyineering" capabilities for example building data pipelines, autoscaling infrastructure compared to its peers.

[Kaniz]

Hi @ markhamil94! My name is Kaniz, and I'm the technical moderator here. Great to meet you, and thanks for your question! Let's see if your peers on the Forum have an answer to your questions first. Or else I will follow up shortly with a response.