We performed a comparison between Firebolt and Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Snowflake Computing, Microsoft, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and others in Cloud Data Warehouse."Firebolt is fast for analytical purposes. For example, we have analytical data in our data warehouse, and Firebolt can quickly query it to generate quick results."
"It's feature-rich. It has a wide range of features."
"This is a stable solution with many functionalities."
"The solution's best feature is its predictive analytics."
"The setup is pretty simple."
"Very interactive and provides flexibility."
"Fills the gap between big data and classic data warehouses."
"The whole solution is interesting for us."
"The most valuable feature is the incremental load because we do not need to refresh the entire data on a daily basis."
"Firebolt's engine takes a long time to start because it needs to make engine calls."
"The cost of the solution has room for improvement."
"The solution should offer a serverless model like Snowflake."
"It's pay as you go, so you never know what your bill is going to be beforehand, and that's scary for customers. If you have someone who makes a mistake and the program's a loop that is running all night, you could receive a very expensive bill."
"There is a limit on the number of concurrent queries to around 125 for Azure Synapse."
"Adding more transformations and plugins to the solution is very important."
"Synapse Analytics is generally stable, but its performance can be slow when performing very large datasets."
"The product needs a tool that allows for work from a laptop instead of a browser."
"We encountered data processing and transformation issues while working with Apache Spark languages for the product."
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Firebolt is ranked 14th in Cloud Data Warehouse with 1 review while Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics is ranked 2nd in Cloud Data Warehouse with 86 reviews. Firebolt is rated 9.0, while Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Firebolt writes "Can quickly query it to generate quick results". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics writes "No competitors provide the entire solution to one place ". Firebolt is most compared with Snowflake, Yellowbrick Cloud Data Warehouse and Amazon Redshift, whereas Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics is most compared with Azure Data Factory, SAP BW4HANA, Snowflake, Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse and Teradata.
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