We performed a comparison between Firebolt and Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Snowflake Computing, Microsoft, Amazon and others in Cloud Data Warehouse."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."
"I like SQL post, which is for storage and distributed computing. Another good feature is the copy activity."
"The most valuable aspect of this Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics is its consolidation of technical support from Microsoft, and its ability to securely host large quantities of data within the cloud environment. The overall ability to manage and maintain Big Data within the cloud provides a heightened level of efficiency, reliability, and support from Microsoft. This results in a superior user experience and an increased level of value for the end user."
"The most valuable feature is the scalability."
"One of the most valuable features of this solution is its ability to integrate well with other services offered by Azure."
"I like its performance. It is well-structured and offers a lot of practical options. Because of the visual design of the product, it is very easy to find icons and other visual elements. It took me more than two weeks to understand how it works. I had an intensive training session to understand it, which was enough. It was not hard to understand how it works."
"Very interactive and provides flexibility."
"Synapse Analytics' best features are notebooks, pipelines, and monitoring."
"Data can be stored any way you want in the data warehouse."
"Firebolt's engine takes a long time to start because it needs to make engine calls."
"The cost of the solution has room for improvement."
"I would like to see better integration with Active Directory, because we have had problems, and we still do."
"The product could be more feature-rich."
"The support and price could improve."
"It could be beneficial to focus on integration with various data sources and similar enhancements."
"When I was trying to link services to an SFTP site it was not able to do all the possible encryption that I needed. They can improve by adding more encryption options."
"It's a complicated product."
"It would be ideal if the solution could be better used intuitively by the staff without having a great deal of training."
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Firebolt is ranked 14th in Cloud Data Warehouse with 1 review while Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics is ranked 2nd in Cloud Data Warehouse with 85 reviews. Firebolt is rated 9.0, while Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Firebolt writes "Can quickly query it to generate quick results". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics writes "No competitors provide the entire solution to one place ". Firebolt is most compared with Snowflake, Yellowbrick Cloud Data Warehouse and Amazon Redshift, whereas Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics is most compared with Azure Data Factory, Snowflake, SAP BW4HANA, Amazon Redshift and Teradata.
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