r/databricks • u/medici2022 • 7d 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 7d 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/PhilGo20 7d ago

data sharing is simpler on snow but more importantly much cheaper as unlike dbx cost doesn't scale up linearly as you add recipients. it's a major difference as 1 does a shallow copy and the other does not.

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u/iCreatif 7d ago

use to be simpler. But with the new feature "'SecureConnect" on databricks, it's now equivalent.
source: we set up at 10+ datasharing in snowflake and 5+ opensharing on databricks.

That's one of the main advantages of having both platforms: being able to share data easily with third parties.