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Alteryx vs Dremio comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 5, 2024

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

Alteryx
Ranking in Data Science Platforms
5th
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
81
Ranking in other categories
Predictive Analytics (1st), Data Preparation Tools (1st)
Dremio
Ranking in Data Science Platforms
9th
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.1
Number of Reviews
8
Ranking in other categories
Cloud Data Warehouse (9th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of April 2025, in the Data Science Platforms category, the mindshare of Alteryx is 6.2%, down from 8.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Dremio is 4.3%, up from 2.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Data Science Platforms
 

Featured Reviews

Theresa McLaughlin - PeerSpot reviewer
Quick development enables seamless data processing despite occasional support issues
There were times when the product would fail during development without an apparent reason. The support structure changed; initially, we received great support, however, it later became less reliable due to licensing issues and a tiered support system. Licensing negotiations were problematic, affecting our product usage. For instance, our licenses were temporarily lost during negotiations when an agreement couldn't be reached.
KamleshPant - PeerSpot reviewer
Solution offers quick data connection with an edge in computation
It's almost similar, yet it's better than Starburst in spinning up or connecting to the new source since it's on SaaS. It is a similar experience between the based application and cloud-based application. You just get the source, connect the data, get visualization, get connected, and do whatever you want. They say data reflection is one way where they do the caching and all that. Starburst also does the caching. In Starburst, you have a data product. Here, the data product comes from a reflection perspective. The y are working on a columnar memory map, columnar computation. That will have some edge in computation.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"It's super easy to learn how to use it — the learning curve is very small."
"The most valuable feature of Alteryx is the intelligence suite."
"I like the solution's velocity, the speed with which it processes data, and its ease of use."
"Alteryx is user-friendly and allows easy creation of workflows compared to Informatica PowerCenter."
"This is a drag-and-drop tool which is easy-to-use and yet can be customized by creating your own components."
"I like the fact that you can easily blend data from different platforms."
"The data transformation feature is the most valuable. The ability to ingest data, visualize data, and transform that data is useful."
"I like that I can merge data from different sources into one place."
"Dremio allows querying the files I have on my block storage or object storage."
"Dremio enables you to manage changes more effectively than any other data warehouse platform. There are two things that come into play. One is data lineage. If you are looking at data in Dremio, you may want to know the source and what happened to it along the way or how it may have been transformed in the data pipeline to get to the point where you're consuming it."
"It's almost similar, yet it's better than Starburst in spinning up or connecting to the new source since it's on SaaS."
"The most valuable feature of Dremio is it can sit on top of any other data storage, such as Amazon S3, Azure Data Factory, SGFS, or Hive. The memory competition is good. If you are running any kind of materialized view, you'd be running in memory."
"Dremio gives you the ability to create services which do not require additional resources and sterilization."
"Overall, you can rate it as eight out of ten."
"Dremio is very easy to use for building queries."
"We primarily use Dremio to create a data framework and a data queue."
 

Cons

"Alteryx's development environment could be improved as it requires installation locally and can't be developed in the cloud."
"There is currently no cloud solution and this would be valuable for many clients."
"The solution could work on the BI side of the tool to make it a bit better."
"The data integration component could most likely be improved to increase enterprise scalability."
"There are a few hiccups with specific data sets and languages or formats that the data comes in. That may be a minor problem, but we can work through it. We had some issues looking at XML format in added data, but it wasn't significant."
"From a commercial standpoint, more options should be available for pricing. The licensing model needs to be specific."
"There are no ready models to use in analytics."
"The solution could improve in the visualization."
"I cannot use the recursive common table expression (CTE) in Dremio because the support page says it's currently unsupported."
"They need to have multiple connectors. Starburst is rich in connectors, however, they are lacking Salesforce connectivity as of today."
"We've faced a challenge with integrating Dremio and Databricks, specifically regarding authentication. It is not shaking hands very easily."
"It shows errors sometimes."
"Dremio takes a long time to execute large queries or the executing of correlated queries or nested queries. Additionally, the solution could improve if we could read data from the streaming pipelines or if it allowed us to create the ETL pipeline directly on top of it, similar to Snowflake."
"They have an automated tool for building SQL queries, so you don't need to know SQL. That interface works, but it could be more efficient in terms of the SQL generated from those things. It's going through some growing pains. There is so much value in tools like these for people with no SQL experience. Over time, Dermio will make these capabilities more accessible to users who aren't database people."
"They need to have multiple connectors."
"There are performance issues at times due to our limited experience with Dremio, and the fact that we are running it on single nodes using a community version."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"I rate the solution's pricing as a ten, as it is highly priced."
"Alteryx is generally more suited for medium—to large companies due to its potentially high licensing costs."
"The desktop platform costs $5,000 per year. It's very costly."
"We have a yearly cost that we pay for the licensing. We do not pay any costs in addition to the licensing fees."
"It's probably on the pricey side, but they provide some really useful ways to grow and test."
"My organization pays for it, and I do not look into the financial aspect of the licensing, but I know it is pretty expensive."
"Opt for the three year subscription. It is 20% less than the yearly one."
"I don't know much about the licensing, but there are some additional costs for certain features."
"Dremio is less costly competitively to Snowflake or any other tool."
"Right now the cluster costs approximately $200,000 per month and is based on the volume of data we have."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
24%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Computer Software Company
9%
Healthcare Company
6%
Financial Services Firm
31%
Computer Software Company
10%
Manufacturing Company
7%
Healthcare Company
4%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

What is the Biggest Difference Between Alteryx and IBM SPSS Modeler?
One of the differences is that with Alteryx you can use it as an ETL and analytics tool. Please connect with me directly if you want to know more.
What is the Biggest Difference Between Alteryx and IBM SPSS Modeler?
Alteryx is an extremely easy and flexible data tool, flexible in terms of drag and drop toolset and also has python, R integrations if your team requires this. It can handle over 2 billion rows of...
What is the Biggest Difference Between Alteryx and IBM SPSS Modeler?
I am not familiar with IBM SPSS Modeler, therefore, I cannot compare these two products. Regarding Alteryx I can say the following: - An excellent desktop tool for Data Prep and analytics. - Featu...
What do you like most about Dremio?
Dremio allows querying the files I have on my block storage or object storage.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Dremio?
The licensing is very expensive. We need a license to scale as we are currently using the community version.
What needs improvement with Dremio?
They need to have multiple connectors. Starburst is rich in connectors, however, they are lacking Salesforce connectivity as of today. They don't have Salesforce connectivity. However, Starburst do...
 

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