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AtScale Adaptive Analytics (A3) vs Dremio comparison

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Categories and Ranking

AtScale Adaptive Analytics ...
Average Rating
5.0
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
Data Virtualization (7th), BI (Business Intelligence) Tools (44th), Data Governance (41st), BI on Hadoop (1st)
Dremio
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
6.5
Number of Reviews
14
Ranking in other categories
Cloud Data Warehouse (10th), Data Science Platforms (9th)
 

Mindshare comparison

While both are Business Intelligence solutions, they serve different purposes. AtScale Adaptive Analytics (A3) is designed for Data Virtualization and holds a mindshare of 7.1%, up 5.9% compared to last year.
Dremio, on the other hand, focuses on Data Science Platforms, holds 2.0% mindshare, down 2.9% since last year.
Data Virtualization Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
AtScale Adaptive Analytics (A3)7.1%
Denodo24.5%
SAP HANA18.3%
Other50.099999999999994%
Data Virtualization
Data Science Platforms Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Dremio2.0%
Databricks6.5%
Dataiku4.4%
Other87.1%
Data Science Platforms
 

Featured Reviews

it_user822762 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior BI and Reporting Analyst at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
The GUI interface is nice and easy to use, but the organization of the icons is not saved across users
Connecting to a Hadoop database to create a cube to connect to Tableau. We want to be able to easily create cubes which can be connected to Tableau for visualization The product had many issues. We had great collaboration with the product development team, but the product was not able to meet our…
Corrr Moray - PeerSpot reviewer
SR BI developer at BRQ Digital Solutions
Has simplified complex data integration workflows and supported consistent reporting across multiple sources
We also have a close relationship with the team that does the Dremio maintenance for the database, like upgrading the versions and they know about some specific problems we had in the past, such as a memory leak. We had a memory leak on some versions, which sometimes stopped the service. Since we are using Dremio installed like a server, not a SaaS solution, many times we need to stop and restart the service to clear all the cache and all that, and this is the thing I should add. I see that many times the new versions of Dremio have not fixed old bugs, and in some new versions, old problems that were previously fixed come back again, so I think the upgrade part could use improvement. I remember using some features in the past, like pivot tables, which proved to be really difficult, but I know this is a fault also for other vendors. Pivoting, transposing, and unpivoting are often not so good. CTEs also many times prove to be not so good, so I think these two main items could be improved significantly if they standardize them.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The GUI interface is nice and easy to use."
"Dremio gives you the ability to create services which do not require additional resources and sterilization."
"Dremio has positively impacted my organization by creating faster development and POC projects."
"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 has positively impacted my organization as nowadays we are connected to multiple databases from multiple environments, multiple APIs, and applications, and Dremio organizes everything in an amazing way for me."
"Dremio has positively impacted my organization by helping us create a single source of truth, a singular data warehouse where we can have access to all of the data sets."
"It's almost similar, yet it's better than Starburst in spinning up or connecting to the new source since it's on SaaS."
"Everyone uses Dremio in my company; some use it only for the analytics function."
"Overall, you can rate it as eight out of ten."
 

Cons

"There was an issue with the incremental aggregation not working as indicated."
"The organization of the icons is not saved across users."
"The product was not able to meet our 10 second refresh requirements."
"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."
"We've faced a challenge with integrating Dremio and Databricks, specifically regarding authentication. It is not shaking hands very easily."
"I cannot use the recursive common table expression (CTE) in Dremio because the support page says it's currently unsupported."
"One area where Dremio can be improved is the lack of tooling or functionalities for importing data in a pipeline way, as it is not an ETL or ELT component."
"Dremio doesn't support the Delta connector. Dremio writes the IT support for Delta, but the support isn't great. There is definitely room for improvement."
"Dremio takes a long time to execute large queries or the executing of correlated queries or nested queries."
"We had a memory leak on some versions, which sometimes stopped the service."
"I chose eight out of ten because Dremio is expensive for the Enterprise version, particularly regarding licensing."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"Right now the cluster costs approximately $200,000 per month and is based on the volume of data we have."
"Dremio is less costly competitively to Snowflake or any other tool."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Comms Service Provider
15%
Healthcare Company
13%
Manufacturing Company
11%
Construction Company
10%
Financial Services Firm
22%
Outsourcing Company
8%
Comms Service Provider
8%
Manufacturing Company
6%
 

Company Size

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Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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Company SizeCount
Small Business3
Midsize Enterprise6
Large Enterprise5
 

Questions from the Community

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Dremio?
I chose eight out of ten because Dremio is expensive for the Enterprise version, particularly regarding licensing.
What needs improvement with Dremio?
I think Dremio can be improved to query faster than multiple sources and big data lakehouses. The community version could be updated for new data catalog connections. I think the documentation is s...
What is your primary use case for Dremio?
I have been using Dremio to select multiple data sources, retrieve multiple data sources, and create and maintain Iceberg tables for the data lakehouse. My main use case for Dremio is to actively c...
 

Also Known As

AtScale, AtScale Intelligence Platform
Dremio AWS - BYOL
 

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Sample Customers

Rakuten, TD Bank, Aetna, Glaxo-Smith Kline, Biogen, Toyota, Tyson
UBS, TransUnion, Quantium, Daimler, OVH