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Databricks vs Piwik: What are the differences?
Developers describe Databricks as "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. On the other hand, Piwik is detailed as "The ultimate open source alternative to Google Analytics". Piwik is a full featured PHP MySQL software program that you download and install on your own webserver. Piwik aims to be a Free software alternative to Google Analytics, and is already used on more than 1,000,000 websites. Privacy is built-in!.
Databricks and Piwik belong to "General Analytics" category of the tech stack.
Some of the features offered by Databricks are:
- Built on Apache Spark and optimized for performance
- Reliable and Performant Data Lakes
- Interactive Data Science and Collaboration
On the other hand, Piwik provides the following key features:
- Real time data updates
- Customizable Dashboard
- All Websites Dashboard
Piwik is an open source tool with 11.9K GitHub stars and 1.83K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Piwik's open source repository on GitHub.
According to the StackShare community, Piwik has a broader approval, being mentioned in 948 company stacks & 449 developers stacks; compared to Databricks, which is listed in 7 company stacks and 4 developer stacks.
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 Piwik
- It's good to have an alternative to google analytics35
- Self-hosted27
- Easy setup10
- Not blocked by Brave2
- Great customs0
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Cons of Databricks
Cons of Piwik
- Hard to export data2