Guides

Opinionated, sourced writing about the platform whose names keep moving. 2 guides. Facts cited, judgement labelled.

Data governance22 min

Snowflake's Databricks comparison, fact-checked claim by claim

Snowflake published a fifteen-minute case against Databricks in September 2026. We took every checkable claim about Databricks to the Databricks docs. Some hold. Some were true until a few weeks before publication. One uses a product name Databricks dropped in June.

September 2026verified September 2026mentions 16 entries

Compute7 min

Undocumented Databricks: more task slots, not more nodes

CPU sits at 30 percent while the node count climbs, because what ran out is task slots, not cores. SPARK_WORKER_CORES runs more task threads on the same cores. Undocumented on Databricks, and paid for in heap.

August 2026verified August 2026mentions 2 entries

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