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We evaluated databricks a few years ago. Didn’t get how we start and do the simplest thing. For our company that didn’t know how to take the first step it was daunting. Then snowflake came along and it was so easy and it just worked and we understood it and could see how it could be extended. Maybe databricks is more powerful, I have no idea, it was going to be way too much effort to find out. It was a nonstarter for us.

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Maybe you can look again - things are changing very fast, few years there were mo DBSQL, Photon, Delta Sharing, etc.

I am out of that game, but adding a bunch of shiny new stuff does not mean it is as simple as Snowflake, it usually means the opposite. With Snowflake the onboarding was so clean and then you land can expand. Databricks was a massive suite of complicated stuff and you don't know where to start. Have they reoriented to fix this?

It became better

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