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A comment on Snowflake’s response to Databricks’ TPC-DS post. Parent comment

Re:Snowflake’s response to Databricks’ TPC-DS post by geoduck14 on Saturday November 13, 2021 @09:20AM (#29209898)
>That’s why we built Databricks SQL not based on Spark.

Wait... really? The sales folks I've been talking to didn't mention this. I assumed that when I ran SQL inside my Python, it was decomposed into Spark SQL with weird join problems (and other nuances I'm not fully familiar with).

Not that THAT would have changed my mind. But it would have changed the calculus of "who uses this tool at my company" and "who do I get on board with this thing"

Edit: To add, I've been a customer of Snowflake for years. I've been evaluating Databricks for 2 months, and put the POC on hold.

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Re:Snowflake’s response to Databricks’ TPC-DS post by alexott on Saturday November 13, 2021 @11:23AM (#29210902)
it's different - rxin talks about this: https://databricks.com/product/databricks-sql

when you run Python, it's on Spark, although you now can use Photon engine that is used for DB SQL by default

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