https://community.databricks.com/t5/data-engineering/databricks-vs-snowflake-pyspark-performance/m-p/167647#M55752 <P>Hi experts, now the competition between cloud providers are fierce and brutal , I come across this post which compares Pyspark performance on databricks and Snowflake</P><P><A href="https://l1nk.dev/1y33h0z" target="_blank">https://l1nk.dev/1y33h0z</A>&nbsp; although the metics tested are not rigorous and exhaustive, but comparative results has been shared. I want to know whether do we have similar comparisons on larger scale with wider set of benchmarks so when these discussions come up before prospective client, we have solid comparison resultset ready to share. Thank you in advance.&nbsp;</P> Sat, 05 Sep 2026 10:08:20 GMT Sam500 2026-09-05T10:08:20Z https://community.databricks.com/t5/data-engineering/databricks-vs-snowflake-pyspark-performance/m-p/167647#M55752 <P>Hi experts, now the competition between cloud providers are fierce and brutal , I come across this post which compares Pyspark performance on databricks and Snowflake</P><P><A href="https://l1nk.dev/1y33h0z" target="_blank">https://l1nk.dev/1y33h0z</A>&nbsp; although the metics tested are not rigorous and exhaustive, but comparative results has been shared. I want to know whether do we have similar comparisons on larger scale with wider set of benchmarks so when these discussions come up before prospective client, we have solid comparison resultset ready to share. Thank you in advance.&nbsp;</P> Sat, 05 Sep 2026 10:08:20 GMT https://community.databricks.com/t5/data-engineering/databricks-vs-snowflake-pyspark-performance/m-p/167647#M55752 Sam500 2026-09-05T10:08:20Z https://community.databricks.com/t5/data-engineering/databricks-vs-snowflake-pyspark-performance/m-p/167654#M55754 <P><a href="https://community.databricks.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/222327">@Sam500</a>&nbsp;You can suggest PySpark on Databricks as Databricks is the <STRONG>original</STRONG> home of <STRONG>Apache Spark</STRONG> - the creators of Spark built Databricks optimizing it further and released it as a high <STRONG>performant</STRONG> platform for use. The <STRONG>Photon</STRONG> engine provides <STRONG>vectorized</STRONG>, native C++ execution that accelerates Spark workloads without any code changes delivering excellent performance on SQL and DataFrame operations. Further more, <STRONG>Liquid Clustering</STRONG> for adaptive data layout optimization and tight integration with Delta Lake for ACID transactions, time travel and unified batch/streaming are natively tuned for <STRONG>Spark</STRONG> workloads. Other platforms cannot match it. More details <A href="https://medium.com/dbsql-sme-engineering/benchmarking-etl-with-the-tpc-di-snowflake-cb0a83aaad5b" target="_self">here</A></P><P>Databricks outperforms other platforms with a unified lake house - one platform for data engineering, BI, ML/AI, Genie, Agents and streaming without data silos or movement. Databricks supports open formats (Delta, Parquet, Iceberg) with no vendor lock-in. With <STRONG>Lakeflow</STRONG> for unified ingestion and pipeline orchestration, <STRONG>Genie</STRONG> for conversational AI, Agents, BI, Mosaic AI for end-to-end model development and serving, <STRONG>Unity Catalog</STRONG> for unified governance across data and AI and <STRONG>Lake base</STRONG> for operational workloads - capabilities other platforms cannot match in a single platform. More details <A href="https://www.databricks.com/databricks-vs-snowflake" target="_self">here</A></P> Sat, 05 Sep 2026 10:55:23 GMT https://community.databricks.com/t5/data-engineering/databricks-vs-snowflake-pyspark-performance/m-p/167654#M55754 balajij8 2026-09-05T10:55:23Z