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 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."
"Synapse Analytics' best feature is its ability to process large files."
"Overall deployment and integration is pretty fast."
"We have found that it is easy to develop and to do the analytics in the modules of data."
"It is a highly stable solution and it's easy to use."
"The MPP (Massively Parallel Processing) architecture helps to make things a lot faster."
"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."
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"Firebolt's engine takes a long time to start because it needs to make engine calls."
"The need to improve a little bit in terms of user-friendliness."
"We encountered data processing and transformation issues while working with Apache Spark languages for the 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."
"Right now, we are really struggling with the performance. it's not as good as we had hoped."
"Synapse Analytics is generally stable, but its performance can be slow when performing very large datasets."
"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."
"There may be some challenges in terms of connecting with Virtual Networks (VNETs) to Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics."
"I am very sure that there are areas in need of improvement, but I can't recall what they are 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 85 reviews. Firebolt is rated 9.0, while Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics is rated 8.0. 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, Snowflake, SAP BW4HANA, Amazon Redshift and Teradata.
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