We performed a comparison between AWS Lake Formation and Firebolt based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Snowflake Computing, Microsoft, Amazon and others in Cloud Data Warehouse."The solution has many features that are applicable to events such as audits."
"We use AWS Lake Formation typically for the data warehouse."
"The most important advantage in using AWS Lake Formation is its ability to connect the data lake to the other technologies in AWS. This is what I advise my clients."
"It is seamlessly integrated within the AWS ecosystem, making it straightforward to manage access patterns for AWS-native services."
"The solution is quite good at handling analytics. It's done a good job at helping us centralize them."
"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."
"In our experience what could be improved are not the support, performance or monitoring, but at a managerial level, the very expensive professional services of AWS. This could be an area of improvement for them. It's too expensive to acquire their support."
"For the end-users, it's not as user-friendly as it could be."
"AWS Lake Formation's pricing could be cheaper."
"It falls short when it comes to more granular access control, such as cell-level or row-level entitlements which is a significant drawback for organizations that require precise control over who can access specific rows of data."
"The solution could make improvements around orchestration and doing some automation stuff on AWS front automation. It would be useful if we could use automation to build images and use hardened images which are CIS compliant."
"Firebolt's engine takes a long time to start because it needs to make engine calls."
AWS Lake Formation is ranked 12th in Cloud Data Warehouse with 5 reviews while Firebolt is ranked 14th in Cloud Data Warehouse with 1 review. AWS Lake Formation is rated 7.6, while Firebolt is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of AWS Lake Formation writes "Strategically aligning data management in a multi-cloud environment with significant reporting challenges". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Firebolt writes "Can quickly query it to generate quick results". AWS Lake Formation is most compared with Snowflake, Azure Data Factory, Amazon Redshift, Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics and BigQuery, whereas Firebolt is most compared with Snowflake, Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics, Yellowbrick Cloud Data Warehouse and Amazon Redshift.
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