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Databricks vs Fathom Analytics: What are the differences?
What is Databricks? A unified analytics platform, powered by Apache Spark. Databricks Unified Analytics Platform, from the original creators of Apache Spark™, unifies data science and engineering across the Machine Learning lifecycle from data preparation to experimentation and deployment of ML applications.
What is Fathom Analytics? Simple, open source website analytics library. Fathom tracks users on a website (without collecting personal data) and give you a non-nerdy breakdown of your top content and top referrers. It does so with user-centric rights and privacy, and without selling, sharing or giving away the data you collect. It's a simple and easy to use for website owners at any technical level.
Databricks and Fathom Analytics can be categorized as "General Analytics" tools.
Fathom Analytics is an open source tool with 5.79K GitHub stars and 235 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Fathom Analytics's open source repository on GitHub.
Pros of Databricks
- Best Performances on large datasets1
- True lakehouse architecture1
- Scalability1
- Databricks doesn't get access to your data1
- Usage Based Billing1
- Security1
- Data stays in your cloud account1
- Multicloud1
Pros of Fathom Analytics
- Self hosted2
- Privacy friendly1