[rxin]

You should try Databricks, especially the new Photon engine powering Spark. In general more performant than Snowflake in SQL and a lot more flexible. (There are some cases in which Databricks would be slower but the perf is improving rapidly.)

[belter]

Probably an oversight on your part, but I would argue would be elegant to disclose you are one of the co-founders.

[Fiahil]

Databricks has an extremely bad API. So, sure, your Spark jobs might be a little bit faster some times, but why would you use it if you can't even read logs of running jobs?

[Lucasoato]

Databricks is amazing, the Delta Live Table technology is incredible. It's very hard to approach problems like Data Lineage and Data Quality, but that platform does it in the right way.

My only concern is that they offer just a managed cloud product. That's cool for startups, but large enterprises sometimes need more governance and ownership than that.

[soulbadguy]

Very surprised by this. Do you have a reference ?

[fnord123]

Fyi, rxin is co-founder of databricks.

[soulbadguy]

That explains it

[StreamBright]

The biggest selling point of Snowflake for most of the customers is that they do not need to maintain the infrastructure.

[fritkot]

Of course you would say that it's more performant and flexible ...TCP-DS was just a PR ploy