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Dremio vs KNIME Business Hub comparison

 

Comparison Buyer's Guide

Executive SummaryUpdated on Feb 15, 2026

Review summaries and opinions

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

ROI

Sentiment score
5.6
Dremio reduces manpower costs, enhances efficiency, and eliminates infrastructure concerns, improving operations by accessing multiple data sources.
Sentiment score
5.6
KNIME Business Hub offers excellent ROI with low costs, ease of use, and encourages cost-effective experimentation before full-scale implementation.
Dremio surely saves time, reduces costs, and all those things because we don't have to worry so much about the infrastructure to make the different tools communicate.
SR BI developer at BRQ Digital Solutions
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
5.2
Dremio's customer service is responsive and helpful, facing staffing challenges as demand grows, requiring more integrators for support.
Sentiment score
6.5
KNIME Business Hub offers efficient support through community forums and documentation but needs more diverse language options and resources.
We have had to reach out for customer support many times, and they respond, so they are pretty supportive about some long-term issues.
SR BI developer at BRQ Digital Solutions
While they cannot always provide immediate answers, they are generally efficient and simplify tasks, especially in the initial phase of learning KNIME.
BI Analyst at a photography company with 11-50 employees
My mark for technical support for KNIME Business Hub is about a 7, as most of the support is in the community, and it is quite good because it is open source.
Senior Consultant at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
7.1
Dremio scales well, offering flexibility and built-in capabilities, though community users face scaling limits due to licensing.
Sentiment score
6.7
KNIME Business Hub is scalable with server setups but faces challenges on desktops with large datasets and requires add-ons.
Dremio's scalability can handle growing data and user demands easily.
SR BI developer at BRQ Digital Solutions
Internally, if it's on Docker or Kubernetes, scalability will be built into the system.
Senior Software Architect at USEReady
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
7.2
Dremio is generally stable, scoring high ratings with occasional performance issues, especially with large datasets, requiring maintenance restarts.
Sentiment score
7.6
Users find KNIME Business Hub stable, rating it 7-10/10, though noting crashes with large data and improved stability post-version 4.
I rate Dremio a nine in terms of stability.
SR BI developer at BRQ Digital Solutions
For now, KNIME Business Hub is excellent for me and for our team.
Co Founder & Chief Data Officer Cdo at NTT DATA
From 1 to 10, I would rate the stability of KNIME Business Hub quite good, around an 8 or 9.
Senior Consultant at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
 

Room For Improvement

Dremio struggles with Delta connector support, performance issues, SQL limitations, high costs, and fewer connectors than competitors.
KNIME Business Hub needs enhanced performance, data visualization, integration, and user interface improvements to handle large datasets effectively.
Starburst comes with around 50 connectors now.
Senior Software Architect at USEReady
It should be easier to get Arctic or an open-source version of Arctic onto the software version so that development teams can experiment with it.
Senior Consultant - Data Analytics at a comms service provider with 201-500 employees
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.
SR BI developer at BRQ Digital Solutions
I would like to see additional functions in KNIME Business Hub that can connect to generative AI, allowing users to describe the workflow for easier workflow generation and creation.
Senior Consultant at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
When I import this data set in the File Reader node, I have problems with this field because it is a date, but the problem is that it imports it as text.
Co Founder & Chief Data Officer Cdo at NTT DATA
Computer vision is the most important because now there is a new age of large language models and visual language models.
Director, Channel And Alliances at Basefy
 

Setup Cost

Dremio's pricing, though costly for scaling, is seen as valuable compared to competitors, requiring careful evaluation based on needs.
KNIME Business Hub provides a cost-effective open-source desktop version, with server pricing based on enterprise support needs.
 

Valuable Features

Dremio offers efficient data management and visualization with seamless integration, native SQL, and role-based access control features.
KNIME Business Hub simplifies data tasks with an intuitive interface, supporting automation, seamless integrations, and extensive machine learning tools.
Having everything under one system and an easier-to-work-with interface, along with having API integrations, adds significant value to working with Dremio.
Senior Consultant - Data Analytics at a comms service provider with 201-500 employees
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.
Data Analyst at a insurance company with 501-1,000 employees
You just get the source, connect the data, get visualization, get connected, and do whatever you want.
Senior Software Architect at USEReady
KNIME is more intuitive and easier to use, which is the principal advantage.
Student at ISCTE - INSTITUTO UNIVERSITÁRIO DE LISBOA
KNIME is simple and allows for fast project development due to its reusability.
BI Analyst at a photography company with 11-50 employees
It is very important that I have the workflow automation integrated with Python nodes.
Co Founder & Chief Data Officer Cdo at NTT DATA
 

Categories and Ranking

Dremio
Ranking in Data Science Platforms
10th
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
6.6
Number of Reviews
11
Ranking in other categories
Cloud Data Warehouse (8th)
KNIME Business Hub
Ranking in Data Science Platforms
3rd
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
63
Ranking in other categories
Data Mining (1st)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2026, in the Data Science Platforms category, the mindshare of Dremio is 2.2%, down from 4.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of KNIME Business Hub is 5.6%, down from 11.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Data Science Platforms Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
KNIME Business Hub5.6%
Dremio2.2%
Other92.2%
Data Science Platforms
 

Featured Reviews

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.
NataliaRaffo - PeerSpot reviewer
Co Founder & Chief Data Officer Cdo at NTT DATA
Workflow automation has accelerated advanced analytics and machine learning delivery
Sometimes it is a little bit difficult to use some nodes when we have many large-scale data, for example, CSV files with a large amount of data. It is sometimes difficult to try to import the data in KNIME Business Hub nodes because I think that some features that are in the CSV in text, for example, large text, is difficult for KNIME Business Hub to import these fields. I don't know why, but it is very difficult. We need to try to use different nodes for importing the data, such as File Reader and CSV Reader. However, I think that it is always the features that have much text, it is difficult for KNIME Business Hub to understand and import this information. I don't know why, or maybe I don't know if we don't know what the better option is to configure the node to import all the CSV or the data set. However, we have always had this problem. In some nodes, sometimes it is the same because sometimes, for example, I have a CSV and in my CSV, I have a feature that is, for example, a date. When I import this data set in the File Reader node, I have problems with this field because it is a date, but the problem is that it imports it as text, for example. We try to use their nodes that convert text to date, but sometimes it is difficult, and it is not immediate to transform the text into a date. So we needed to convert the text into a date in the CSV, and then import it again in the KNIME Business Hub node and try to have a good read of this field. I know that KNIME Business Hub has some nodes to convert text to date and others, but sometimes it is difficult to use these nodes. I don't know why. Maybe it needs a specific format for the date and we need to transform our feature in this option. So sometimes it is a large process to convert these features. However, sometimes we need to investigate and search for other nodes, and try with other nodes to import these cases.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
25%
Computer Software Company
8%
Healthcare Company
6%
Comms Service Provider
6%
Financial Services Firm
12%
Manufacturing Company
9%
University
8%
Educational Organization
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business1
Midsize Enterprise5
Large Enterprise5
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business21
Midsize Enterprise16
Large Enterprise32
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Dremio?
I don't have information about pricing, setup cost, and licensing for Dremio, so I am not entitled to discuss it.
What needs improvement with Dremio?
I wouldn't say there is anything Dremio can be improved on. If I could change something, I would say many developers and programmers, when they are starting to work in this specific field or area, ...
What is your primary use case for Dremio?
I have been using Dremio for a year and a half. My main use case for Dremio is that I am able to access multiple databases and I can easily and quickly connect Dremio with my dashboards. In my rece...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for KNIME?
I rate the product’s pricing a seven out of ten, where one is cheap and ten is expensive.
What needs improvement with KNIME?
In my previous PeerSpot review from March 2024, I mentioned that KNIME was not very strong in visualization and that I wanted to see NLQ (Natural Language Query) and automated visualization capabil...
What is your primary use case for KNIME?
I mainly use KNIME for ETL and data integration projects, followed by clustering and customer segmentation, process mining, AI and machine learning preprocessing pipelines, and recently GenAI orche...
 

Comparisons

 

Also Known As

Dremio AWS - BYOL
KNIME Analytics Platform
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

UBS, TransUnion, Quantium, Daimler, OVH
Infocom Corporation, Dymatrix Consulting Group, Soluzione Informatiche, MMI Agency, Estanislao Training and Solutions, Vialis AG
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