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."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."
"Dremio allows querying the files I have on my block storage or object storage."
"We primarily use Dremio to create a data framework and a data queue."
"Everyone uses Dremio in my company; some use it only for the analytics function."
"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."
"It helped us to build MVP (minimum viable product) for our idea of building a data warehouse model for small businesses."
"The solution is very easy to use."
"Snowflake's most valuable features are data enrichment and flattening."
"The adaptation to development languages is most valuable. Our developers can SQL code or something else. It has been convenient in that regard."
"The solution is easy to use."
"The solution speeds up the process of onboarding."
"Time travel is one feature that really helps us out."
"The most valuable feature has been the Snowflake data sharing and dynamic data masking."
"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."
"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."
"It shows errors sometimes."
"We've faced a challenge with integrating Dremio and Databricks, specifically regarding authentication. It is not shaking hands very easily."
"We would like to see more security including more masking and more encryption at the database level."
"Room for improvement would be writebacks. It doesn't support extensively writing back to the database, and it doesn't support web applications effectively. Ultimately, it's a database call, so if we are building web applications using Snowflake, it isn't that effective because there is some turnaround time from the database."
"The solution could use a little bit more UI."
"We are yet to figure out how to integrate tools, such as Liquibase, to release changes to our data warehouse model."
"Support needs improvement, as it can take several days before you get some initial support."
"Snowflake could improve if they had an Operational Data Store(ODS) space."
"Currently, Snowflake doesn't support unstructured data."
"Product activation queries can't be changed while executing."
Dremio is ranked 11th in Cloud Data Warehouse with 6 reviews while Snowflake is ranked 1st in Cloud Data Warehouse with 92 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 Amazon Redshift. See our Dremio vs. Snowflake report.
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