We performed a comparison between Firebolt and Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Snowflake Computing, Microsoft, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and others in Cloud Data Warehouse."Firebolt is fast for analytical purposes. For example, we have analytical data in our data warehouse, and Firebolt can quickly query it to generate quick results."
"We find the serverless tool to be the most valuable feature ."
"Azure Synapse combines the strengths of SQL technologies for effective enterprise data management."
"Technical support is okay in terms of the help they provide."
"Overall deployment and integration is pretty fast."
"The most valuable features of Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics are how easy and quick it is to set up the linked services."
"I like its performance. It is well-structured and offers a lot of practical options. Because of the visual design of the product, it is very easy to find icons and other visual elements. It took me more than two weeks to understand how it works. I had an intensive training session to understand it, which was enough. It was not hard to understand how it works."
"The initial setup is very simple."
"The solution operates like a typical SQL Server environment so there is no alienation in terms of technical knowledge."
"Firebolt's engine takes a long time to start because it needs to make engine calls."
"There may be some challenges in terms of connecting with Virtual Networks (VNETs) to Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics."
"Comes with a pretty steep learning curve."
"The initial setup has a bit of a learning curve."
"Its stability is an issue. They have been releasing a version every six months to one year, which means that there are many versions available, and clients are not up to speed on the latest one that they're offering. From a stability point of view, they could do better. They're still upgrading their Synapse Analytics workspace, and it is not that stable. Its scalability can also be better."
"I would like to see more ready-to-use products from Synapse. Right now, everything seems a bit futuristic without much modern use."
"Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics could improve the section in the solution where you can implement the Python Spark pipelines, it's not the same as in Databricks which would be better."
"They should automate some of the features. There are some things, such as the creation of external tables, that you have to do manually. They should be automated."
"I am pretty sure that there are areas that need improvement but I just can think of them off the top of my head."
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Firebolt is ranked 14th in Cloud Data Warehouse with 1 review while Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics is ranked 2nd in Cloud Data Warehouse with 86 reviews. Firebolt is rated 9.0, while Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Firebolt writes "Can quickly query it to generate quick results". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics writes "No competitors provide the entire solution to one place ". Firebolt is most compared with Snowflake and Yellowbrick Cloud Data Warehouse, whereas Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics is most compared with Azure Data Factory, SAP BW4HANA, Snowflake, Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse and Teradata.
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