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."
"The pricing seems to be quite fair."
"The MPP (Massively Parallel Processing) architecture helps to make things a lot faster."
"The features we've found most valuable for data warehouses is extracting data, SSIS packages, and the DBs."
"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."
"It's scalable; you can scale up and scale down."
"The whole solution is interesting for us."
"The most valuable feature is the incremental load because we do not need to refresh the entire data on a daily basis."
"The most important feature for me is the integration with PolyBase."
"Firebolt's engine takes a long time to start because it needs to make engine calls."
"Scaling this solution up and down is not quick and easy. This could be improved. The pricing of this solution could also be improved."
"Adding more transformations and plugins to the solution is very important."
"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."
"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."
"The support and price could improve."
"The only concern for us is the cost part. When it comes to the implementation and the support and maintenance, we see high-cost implications."
"Integration with other products is an area that can be improved."
"It needs strong support for social media, internet data, and native support for NoSQL."
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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, Yellowbrick Cloud Data Warehouse and Amazon Redshift, 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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