Snowflake vs Databricks - The Ultimate Comparison 💡 Which One is Right for You?

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[@valentinloghin4004]

The Snowflake almost no maintenance, Databricks you need a good admin .

[@sivakumarkanagaraj]

Snowflake is a Data warehousing platform - subject oriented, star schema or snowflake schema. I hope I don't have to explain what data warehousing is in detail. Both can support star schema and snowflake schema but that does not mean, both are data warehousing platforms. Snowflake is optimized for warehousing whereas Databricks is meant for storing huge volumes of data in tabular format with data quality in mind in order to support AI use cases.

[@vicepixel]

Good video as I'm prepping for a databricks and snowflake interview. Subbed

[@DecisionForest]

Good luck sir

[@xlectrikx]

Snowflake can in fact process and handle massive (TB/ PB) datasets quite easily. The ease of use here probably gives it an edge over Databricks in this regard. And Databricks may have more functionality with streaming data, but Snowflake can handle streaming data quite well with Snowpipes.

[@DecisionForest]

Good points. I’m planning to make an updated one going into more detail in the next weeks.

[@douyu1971]

long live ease of use

[@DavidOstler-x5o]

Honest feedback (from a data engineer):
This video feels less like an "ultimate comparison" of both products, and more like a fluff piece comparing Snowflake's marketing fluff against Databricks' marketing fluff.
I was hoping that this would go deep on real-world comparisons between Databricks & Snowflake on things like:
- ease-of-use, maintainability, and administration
- side-by-side performance benchmarks
- cost (real numbers)
- features (i.e. a feature matrix)
Ultimately, I am no closer to knowing which product is "right for me".

[@DecisionForest]

I agree, it was meant to be a beginner introduction as I’ve been postponing to edit a video I made about an in-depth comparison. Didn’t feel I covered enough and your points are helpful. I’ve spent more time on Azure lately but thank you for this, appreciate the feedback 🙏

[@peterkingz2403]

Thanks for posting - great intro video for someone looking to compare the two platforms. Would have loved more concrete example though. For example I'm curious what engineering & ML use cases Databricks enables that Snowflake cannot? Thanks

[@DecisionForest]

Thank you, I'll most probably do a more detailed comparison in the following weeks.

[@ms1crash]

Snowflake can be used for core business analysis. Databricks is for the ML guys to play with data, burn budget and produce non-serious results.

[@bash2004]

😂😂

[@sirus312]

Lol keeps them busy!

[@avivana4556]

Seems like you don’t really know a lot about Snowflake. SF is able to run more/complex/different workloads faster and much easier to use then DB. Love both products but SF > DB 100%

[@DecisionForest]

Definitely less than DB but tried to be as neutral as possible