Databricks vs Zilliz Cloud

Which one do AI engines recommend, and how do they differ on price, fit and features?

The short answer

Zilliz Cloud is the stronger AI pick in Vector Databases: it has a visibility score of 23 versus 1.4 for Databricks, and ranks ahead in 100% of the answers that name both.

Choose Databricks if…

AI answers describe it more positively (35% vs 32% positive)
You need ISO 27001 or ISO 27017 or ISO 27018 or ISO 27701 or SOC 1 or SOC 3 coverage
You prefer a larger, established vendor (5,000+ employees)
Lakehouse architecture combining data warehousing with data lake flexibility

Choose Zilliz Cloud if…

You want the brand AI engines rank higher (23 vs 1.4)
You need ISO/IEC 27001 or GDPR ready or HIPAA ready coverage
built for billion-scale vector workloads
free tier with 5 GB storage

AI visibility side by side

Latest weekly run · Nov 2

Metric	Databricks	Zilliz Cloud
Visibility score	1.4%	23%
Change vs last week	New	New
Rank in Vector Databases	#22	#5
Share of voice	0.8%	6.3%
Mentions this run	4	30
Positive in AI answers	35%	32%

The stronger value in each row is marked with a ✓.

Visibility score trend

Weekly runs over the last 60 days

Databricks 0pp · Zilliz Cloud 0pp over 0 weekly runs.

Engine by engine

Zilliz Cloud leads on 3 of 3 engines

ChatGPT

1.9%

28.7%

AI Mode

1.3%

22%

Perplexity

1.1%

18.3%

DatabricksZilliz Cloud

Head to head in AI answers

3 engine answers name both brands

0Databricks ranked higher

3Zilliz Cloud ranked higher

Prompt	Engine	Databricks	Zilliz Cloud
Best vector database for enterprise	ChatGPT	#9	#4
Best vector database for enterprise	AI Mode	#6	#2
Compare the leading Vector Databases platforms	ChatGPT	#10	#4

Features, pricing & fit

Dimension	Databricks	Zilliz Cloud
Pricing model	—	Usage-based
Entry price	—	Free; paid from $197 / mo
Free plan	—	Yes
Deployment	Available across all major cloud providers	Fully managed SaaS, bring-your-own-cloud (BYOC) with data in the customer's VPC, and self-run open-source Milvus
Compliance	ISO 27001, ISO 27017, ISO 27018, ISO 27701, SOC 1, SOC 2 Type II, SOC 3	SOC 2 Type II, ISO/IEC 27001, GDPR ready, HIPAA ready
Support	Technical support on request, Technical documentation	Community support bot, Email/ticket portal, Slack private channel, Zoom, Google Meet or Teams calls
Founded	2013	2017
Headquarters	San Francisco, CA	Redwood City, California
Employees	5,000+	51–200
Funding	Round at $60B valuation, including secondary sale	Series B extension · $113M raised
Best for	Data engineering, data science, analytics and AI teams at startups and global enterprises	Teams running production AI applications that need low-latency vector search at scale, and regulated sectors such as healthcare and finance