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by mst 1682 days ago
Databricks and snowflake should pay an independent third party to re-run these. In-house benchmarks by either company don't count with results this different.
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Databricks didn't run the Snowflake comparison in-house. From their article it says: "These results were corroborated by research from Barcelona Supercomputing Center, which frequently runs TPC-DS on popular data warehouses. Their latest research benchmarked Databricks and Snowflake, and found that Databricks was 2.7x faster and 12x better in terms of price performance."
I don't trust a supercomputer center to do a good job running a TPC benchmark (I do trust them to run LINPACK benchmarks).