We performed a comparison between Dremio and Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics 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."Dremio allows querying the files I have on my block storage or object storage."
"Dremio gives you the ability to create services which do not require additional resources and sterilization."
"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."
"Everyone uses Dremio in my company; some use it only for the analytics function."
"We primarily use Dremio to create a data framework and a data queue."
"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 features of Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics are how easy and quick it is to set up the linked services."
"The most valuable feature is the incremental load because we do not need to refresh the entire data on a daily basis."
"It's user-friendly and has a good dashboard."
"This is a stable solution with many functionalities."
"Technical support is okay in terms of the help they provide."
"The useability, the user interface, is very user-friendly."
"The solution's scalability is very, very good. It's one of the most important aspects for us."
"The speed is great and the architecture is excellent."
"It shows errors sometimes."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"Non-structured data is unavailable with this product."
"Synapse Analytics needs to develop an automation framework because now you have to build a cache yourself. You have to build a pipeline in WhereScape, which does end-to-end pipeline automation well. Microsoft should come up with a framework to save people time. If they developed a tool like WhereScape, it would dramatically reduce development time."
"If I'm looking for something good in the cloud, I would want it to have better standard connectors."
"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."
"Synapse Analytics' performance slows down if you don't get your distribution right because it gets queued and goes into a single node."
"More integration is needed to improve the product for the future."
"Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics could improve in usability. I have found the same issue with all Microsoft solutions."
"The cost of the solution has room for improvement."
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Dremio is ranked 11th in Cloud Data Warehouse with 6 reviews while Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics is ranked 2nd in Cloud Data Warehouse with 86 reviews. Dremio is rated 8.6, while Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics is rated 7.8. 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 Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics writes "No competitors provide the entire solution to one place ". Dremio is most compared with Databricks, Snowflake, Starburst Enterprise, Amazon Redshift and Microsoft Power BI, whereas Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics is most compared with Azure Data Factory, SAP BW4HANA, Snowflake, Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse and IBM Netezza Performance Server. See our Dremio vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics report.
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