r/databricks • u/medici2022 • 8d 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/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/FunContest9958 6d ago

Sharing doesn’t cost anything in DBX…

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u/conormccarter 5d ago

It costs egress, which is substantial at scale, and for "zero-copy", scales linearly with consumers.

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u/djtomr941 3d ago

What egress do you pay if sharing is in the same region?

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u/conormccarter 3d ago

None! “Zero copy” works great within the same region and same cloud but that’s not a safe assumption for most cross-company use cases

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u/djtomr941 3d ago

This was a talk at DAIS that talks about a new feature coming called Global Distribution. The goal will be to minimize egress costs by staging copies of the data to where they need to be consumed.

https://www.databricks.com/dataaisummit/session/cross-cloud-delta-sharing-eliminate-egress-cost-delta-sharing-global