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* Databricks is unethical * Nobody should benchmark anymore, just focus on customers instead * But hey, we just did some benchmarks and we look better than wh
by michaelhartm 5y ago
* Databricks is unethical
* Nobody should benchmark anymore, just focus on customers instead
* But hey, we just did some benchmarks and we look better than what Databricks claims
* Btw, please sign up and do some benchmarks on Snowflake, we actually ship TPC-DS dataset with Snowflake
* Btw, we agree with Databricks, let's remove the DeWitt clause, vendors should be able to benchmark each other!
* Consistency is more important than anything else!!!
- cloudbonsai 5y agoThe interesting part is that Snowflake omits Databricks' performance scores in their graphs. Here is how they compare on TPC-DS benchmark, based on two companies' self-reports: * Elapsed time: 3108s (Databricks) vs 3760s (Snowflake) * Price/Peformance: $242 (Databricks) vs $267 (Snowflake) Needless to say, these numbers seriously need a verification by independent 3rd parties, but it seems that Databricks is still 18% faster and 10% cheaper than Snowflake?
- geoduck14 5y agoThe way I read this is: DataBricks benchmarked against us, and they messed it up. Here is hou YOU should evaluate Snowflake performance. And, by the way, it is pretty easy to do it.
- kingkongv2 5y agoIf people have never heard of Databricks, now is the time because a 100 billion company just started a war against them. Great marketing win Databricks.
- geoduck14 5y agoTo be fair, I've been equating Databricks for a month or so. Databricks is coming after Snowflake. Snowflake doesn't care. Snowflake has a pretty solid moat with: EASY SQL, data sharing (they have a marketplace), simple scaling
- bpaneural 5y agoYou'll need to revisit this again. In the last two years Databricks has built a lead and a bigger moat. They're essentially nice chaps with a huge community backing them. And we all love their open source tools which essentially powers not only their big data platforms, but everyone else's too (AWS, GCP).
- ageek123 5y agoDatabricks introduced an open source data sharing feature earlier this year. I don't know Databricks well enough to comment on the other two.
- glogla 5y agoDatabricks is $28B valuation and 2800 employees, Snowflake is $109 valuation and 2500 employees. They are both billion dolar companies, we're hardly talking David and Goliath here.
- alexott 5y agofor DB that's old number - recent valuation is $38B
- uvdn7 5y agoI don’t think they are saying benchmark is not important but rather public benchmark war being a distraction.