An Alternative to Databricks

Saturn Cloud offers a more low-cost infrastructure for scaling, collaborating, and optimizing resource management. Jump into a fully-managed environment and start training your model in seconds.

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Comparing Saturn Cloud and Databricks

Saturn Cloud provides a data science platform that is more configurable and more interoperable than Databricks.

Platform Features

Saturn Cloud

Databricks

Ease of Use
Approach
Saturn Cloud prioritizes ease of use while still allowing data scientist and teams access to large-scale computing resources.Databricks prioritizes processing large data first and ease of use second.
Interactive Environment
Notebooks
Users employ JupyterLab and R, or they can SSH into their preferred IDE, meaning they can replicate their local environment.Users work in a custom interactive notebook environment, with the limitations inherent to custom solutions.
Tools & Workflow Flexibility
Libraries
Users can install almost any library or package by utilizing pip, apt, conda, or a start script–minimizing dependency issues and maximizing flexibility.Users utilize the custom workplace library system to install packages, the complexity of which could lead to dependency and runtime problems.
Git Repositories
Full git functionalityLimited git functionality (i.e., one branch)
Scalability & Performance
Instance Types
Saturn Cloud’s upper range is 4 TB and 128 vCPUs, so users can run bigger workloads that require instances of these sizes.Databricks maxes out at 768 GB of RAM and 96 vCPUs per instance for large-sized instances.
Distributed Computing
Users can employ Dask clusters, which, for Python users, can not only be easier to debug and control but also be faster.Users must employ Spark clusters with interface layers to their preferred languages, which can be more difficult to debug and can potentially be slower for some use cases.

Loved by Engineers and AI Leaders

  • Unleashing the full potential of open-source LLMs was made possible thanks to Saturn Cloud. Allowing me to add GPUs seamlessly immensely accelerated my experimentation process, providing a highly customized sandbox-like environment, ideal for any task that can benefit from the specialization of customized machine learning and data science.
  • Saturn Cloud makes my work so much easier. When I sit down at the beginning of the day, I just want my environment to work. I want my favorite packages installed and available on demand. I want it to be easy to scale my workspace and have it shut down automatically when I'm done. Saturn Cloud solves all of that. Their customer service is also top-notch.
  • Saturn Cloud is a great platform for training AI models. It is easy to use and has a user-friendly interface. I have used it to train BERT models, and it has helped me speed up the training process significantly. I would recommend Saturn Cloud to anyone looking to train AI models.
  • Taking runtime down from 60 days to 11 hours is such an incredible improvement. We are able to fit in many more iterations on our models. This has a significant positive impact on the effectiveness of our product, which takes many iterations to perform at the standard necessary for our customers.

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