Comet vs Databricks
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Comet
Experiment tracking evaluation and AI observability for ML teams, available as free cloud or self hosted OSS with enterprise options for secure collaboration.
Databricks
Unified data and AI platform with lakehouse architecture collaborative notebooks SQL warehouse ML runtime and governance built for scalable analytics and production AI.
Feature Tags Comparison
Only in Comet
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Only in Databricks
Key Features
Comet
- • One line logging: Add a few lines to notebooks or jobs to record metrics params and artifacts for side by side comparisons and reproducibility
- • Evals for LLM apps: Define datasets prompts and rubrics to score quality with human in the loop review and golden sets for regression checks
- • Observability after deploy: Track live metrics drift and failures then alert owners and roll back or retrain with evidence captured for audits
- • Governance and privacy: Use roles projects and private networking to meet policy while enabling collaboration across research and product
- • Open and flexible: Choose free cloud or self hosted OSS with APIs and SDKs that plug into common stacks without heavy migration
- • Dashboards for stakeholders: Build views that explain model choices risks and tradeoffs so leadership can approve promotions confidently
Databricks
- • Lakehouse storage and compute that unifies batch streaming BI and ML on open formats for cost and portability across clouds
- • Collaborative notebooks and repos that let data and ML teams build together with version control alerts and CI friendly patterns
- • SQL Warehouses that power dashboards and ad hoc analysis with elastic clusters and fine grained governance via catalogs
- • MLflow native integration for experiment tracking packaging registry and deployment that works across jobs and services
- • Vector search and RAG building blocks that bring enterprise content into assistants under governance and observability
- • Jobs and workflows that schedule pipelines with retries alerts and asset lineage visible in Unity Catalog for audits
Use Cases
Comet
- → Hyperparameter sweeps: Compare runs and pick winners with clear charts and artifact diffs for reproducible results
- → Prompt and RAG evaluation: Score generations against references and human rubrics to improve assistant quality across releases
- → Model registry workflows: Track versions lineage and approvals so shipping teams know what passed checks and why
- → Drift detection: Monitor production data and performance so owners catch shifts and trigger retraining before user impact
- → Collaborative research: Share projects and notes so scientists and engineers align on goals and evidence during sprints
- → Compliance support: Maintain histories and approvals to satisfy audits and customer reviews with minimal manual work
Databricks
- → Build governed data products that serve BI dashboards and ML models without copying data across silos
- → Modernize ETL by shifting to Delta pipelines that handle streaming and batch with fewer moving parts and clearer lineage
- → Deploy RAG assistants that search governed documents with vector indexes and access controls for safe retrieval
- → Scale experimentation with MLflow so teams compare runs promote models and enable reproducible releases
- → Consolidate legacy warehouses and data science clusters to reduce cost and drift while improving security posture
- → Serve predictive features to apps using online stores that sync from batch and streaming pipelines under catalog control
Perfect For
Comet
ml engineers data scientists platform and research teams who want reproducible tracking evals and monitoring with free options and enterprise governance when needed
Databricks
data engineers analytics leaders ML engineers platform teams and architects at companies that want a governed lakehouse for ETL BI and production AI with usage based pricing
Capabilities
Comet
Databricks
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