Databricks response to Snowflake's accusation of lacking integrity
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Re: Databricks response to Snowflake's accusation of lacking integrity
#2Data Wars: Snowflake vs Databricks (0 - 2)?
Re: Databricks response to Snowflake's accusation of lacking integrity
#3tl;dr: The data warehouse company used a pre-baked TPC-DS dataset and claimed they have similar performance to Databricks. Turns out if you use the official TPC-DS data generation scripts, you get much worse performance.
Re: Databricks response to Snowflake's accusation of lacking integrity
#4snowflake should just pony up and do a TPC-DS audited benchmark
Re: Databricks response to Snowflake's accusation of lacking integrity
#5Everyone win when data platforms submit audited benchmarks...
Re: Databricks response to Snowflake's accusation of lacking integrity
#6I've used both products in production. Both are good++.
The blog wars seem extremely ridiculous to me. I don't recall ever choosing one over another based on how fast it runs on some imaginary arbitrary dataset.
Re: Databricks response to Snowflake's accusation of lacking integrity
#7This reminds me of the old performance ads of Oracle where they would show you how everything ran better on Oracle. They used to put those ads at airports, business lounges and the back cover of newspapers and magazines read by non-technical executives like the FT and Economist.
Everyone technical knew they would game every environment to come out with superior results. I suppose it worked. As the top executives buy big system software and ignore the IT crowd who could easily point out the flaws in the methodology of the"studies".
Breakdown of one of those example ads:
https://db2news.wordpress.com/2011/06/08/a-closer-examinatio...
Re: Databricks response to Snowflake's accusation of lacking integrity
#8so, alternatives?
Aside from the Azure/GCP/AWS internal offeringa I know about Snowflake and Firebolt, Databricks is new to me.
Re: Databricks response to Snowflake's accusation of lacking integrity
#9tl;dr: The data warehouse company used a pre-baked TPC-DS dataset and claimed they have similar performance to Databricks. Turns out if you use the official TPC-DS data generation scripts, you get much worse performance.
That's altering the methods - and generally considered a violation of the validity of the results.
Re: Databricks response to Snowflake's accusation of lacking integrity
#10Lol