I never really viewed Snowflake as a direct competitor to Databricks; it's perhaps more comparable to Oracle and other traditional cloud-lifted data warehouses. Databricks offers so much more than just a warehouse.
At the end of the day, it's the performance and cost-effectiveness, rather than additional features, that ultimately secure large-scale deals. Databricks definitely lands those in spades and more.
Now, Fabric - that's much more in the realm of the playing field that Databricks dominates these days. It's exciting to see where this leads next!
I spend much less time thinking about Snowflake these days. But I thought I'd highlight this blog by Robert Thompson who does excellent technical work at T-Mobile. The benchmark is on a publicly available dataset of 1.6B rows. I wonder which platform offers much lower TCO?
https://lnkd.in/gYsuddrf
Databricks vs Snowflake by the numbers
medium.com
...the "semi" subtle swipe at SF in the first sentence 😀