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Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Databricks Data Intelligence Platform

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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Azure Synapse Analytics

    Score6.9 out of 10
    N/AAzure Synapse Analytics is described as the former Azure SQL Data Warehouse, evolved, and as a limitless analytics service that brings together enterprise data warehousing and Big Data analytics. It gives users the freedom to query data using either serverless or provisioned resources, at scale. Azure Synapse brings these two worlds together with a unified experience to ingest, prepare, manage, and serve data for immediate BI and machine learning needs.

    $4,700

    per month 5000 Synapse Commit Units (SCUs)

    Databricks Data Intelligence Platform

    Score8.4 out of 10
    N/ADatabricks in San Francisco offers the Databricks Lakehouse Platform (formerly the Unified Analytics Platform), a data science platform and Apache Spark cluster manager. The Databricks Unified Data Service aims to provide a reliable and scalable platform for data pipelines, data lakes, and data platforms. Users can manage full data journey, to ingest, process, store, and expose data throughout an organization. Its Data Science Workspace is a collaborative environment for practitioners to run…

    $0.07

    Per DBU

    Pricing
    Azure Synapse AnalyticsDatabricks Data Intelligence Platform
    Editions & Modules
    Tier 1
    $4,700
    per month 5,000 Synapse Commit Units (SCUs)
    Tier 2
    $9,200
    per month 10,000 Synapse Commit Units (SCUs)
    Tier 3
    $21,360
    per month 24,000 Synapse Commit Units (SCUs)
    Tier 4
    $50,400
    per month 60,000 Synapse Commit Units (SCUs)
    Tier 5
    $117,000
    per month 150,000 Synapse Commit Units (SCUs)
    Tier 6
    $259,200
    per month 360,000 Synapse Commit Units (SCUs)
    Standard
    $0.07
    Per DBU
    Premium
    $0.10
    Per DBU
    Enterprise
    $0.13
    Per DBU
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Azure Synapse AnalyticsDatabricks Data Intelligence Platform
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Azure Synapse AnalyticsDatabricks Data Intelligence Platform
    Considered Both Products
    Microsoft
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    Databricks
    Chose Databricks Data Intelligence Platform
    Compared to Synapse & Snowflake, Databricks provides a much better development experience, and deeper configuration capabilities.
    It works out-of-the-box but still allows you intricate customisation of the environment.
    I find Databricks very flexible and resilient at the same …
    Incentivized
    Chose Databricks Data Intelligence Platform
    Databricks has a much better edge than Synapse in hundred different ways. Databricks has Photon engine, faster available release in cloud and databricks does not run on Open source spark version so better optimization, better performance and better agility and all kind of …
    Incentivized
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    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    User Ratings
    Azure Synapse AnalyticsDatabricks Data Intelligence Platform
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.1
    (9 ratings)
    10.0
    (18 ratings)
    Usability
    9.6
    (2 ratings)
    10.0
    (4 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.6
    (2 ratings)
    8.7
    (2 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Professional Services
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)