We performed a comparison between Dremio and Snowflake based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Cloud Data Warehouse solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Everyone uses Dremio in my company; some use it only for the analytics function."
"Dremio allows querying the files I have on my block storage or object storage."
"Dremio enables you to manage changes more effectively than any other data warehouse platform. There are two things that come into play. One is data lineage. If you are looking at data in Dremio, you may want to know the source and what happened to it along the way or how it may have been transformed in the data pipeline to get to the point where you're consuming it."
"The most valuable feature of Dremio is it can sit on top of any other data storage, such as Amazon S3, Azure Data Factory, SGFS, or Hive. The memory competition is good. If you are running any kind of materialized view, you'd be running in memory."
"Dremio gives you the ability to create services which do not require additional resources and sterilization."
"We primarily use Dremio to create a data framework and a data queue."
"The most valuable feature has been the Snowflake data sharing and dynamic data masking."
"The most valuable feature is the clone copy."
"Great scalability and near zero maintenance."
"It has great flexibility whenever we are loading data and performs ELT (extract, load, transform) techniques instead of ETL."
"The querying speed is fast."
"The solution's computing time is less."
"The most valuable feature of Snowflake is it's an all-in-one data warehousing solution."
"We find the data sharing and data marketplace aspects of Snowflake absolutely amazing."
"Dremio doesn't support the Delta connector. Dremio writes the IT support for Delta, but the support isn't great. There is definitely room for improvement."
"It shows errors sometimes."
"They have an automated tool for building SQL queries, so you don't need to know SQL. That interface works, but it could be more efficient in terms of the SQL generated from those things. It's going through some growing pains. There is so much value in tools like these for people with no SQL experience. Over time, Dermio will make these capabilities more accessible to users who aren't database people."
"Dremio takes a long time to execute large queries or the executing of correlated queries or nested queries. Additionally, the solution could improve if we could read data from the streaming pipelines or if it allowed us to create the ETL pipeline directly on top of it, similar to Snowflake."
"We've faced a challenge with integrating Dremio and Databricks, specifically regarding authentication. It is not shaking hands very easily."
"I cannot use the recursive common table expression (CTE) in Dremio because the support page says it's currently unsupported."
"Support needs improvement, as it can take several days before you get some initial support."
"It would be helpful if Snowflake could create good reports instead of using Power BI reports."
"I can only access Snowflake from the web. It would be better if we could have an app that we can install locally on our laptops to connect to the server without needing to go to the web page. Apart from that, it's hard to point out any limitations in the tool."
"It's difficult to know how to size everything correctly."
"It needs a bit more rigor and governance, which is something you don't get with newer tools. This makes it less enterprise scalable. Its governance and structure can be enhanced, which would really be valuable. I would like to see some kind of prebuilt functionality in terms of having almost like a pre-built data warehouse. A functionality for generating automated kind of pieces would be good."
"Their UiPath, the workspace area, needs some work."
"The UI could improve because sometimes in the security query the UI freezes. We then have to close the window and restart."
"Currently, Snowflake doesn't support unstructured data."
Dremio is ranked 11th in Cloud Data Warehouse with 6 reviews while Snowflake is ranked 1st in Cloud Data Warehouse with 94 reviews. Dremio is rated 8.6, while Snowflake is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Dremio writes "It enables you to manage changes more effectively than any other platform". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Snowflake writes "Good usability, good data sharing and elastic compute features, and requires less DBA involvement". Dremio is most compared with Databricks, Starburst Enterprise, Amazon Redshift, Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics and Microsoft Power BI, whereas Snowflake is most compared with BigQuery, Azure Data Factory, Teradata, Vertica and Oracle Exadata. See our Dremio vs. Snowflake report.
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