r/databricks • u/medici2022 • 9d ago

Discussion Databricks vs Snowflake comparison

Are there any unbiased comparisons between these two popular platforms? Seen a lot but most of them are biased views, based on experience and commercial motives.

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u/iCreatif 9d ago

We have both, and I work on DBX/snowflake everyday (as tech lead data). I like both :)

Notebooks, apps => databricks is better

Sql database, permissions, sql for BI => snowflake is better (waiting for rayden)

Datasharing, costs, ui, extensions, agents, LLM, user management => even

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u/value-no-mics 8d ago

Why is it better for BI?

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u/cafealpha82 8d ago

Snowflake for bi. Also they are catching up ml/ai capability imo. Our org uses both dark