Dremio today announced its Fall 2020 release, which brings the capability referenced above. Users can now query data sitting in Amazon’s S3 and Microsoft’s ADLS directly from a BI tool like Looker, Tableau, or PowerBI. And thanks to Dremio’s middleware, the queries will exhibit the same performance characteristics as if they were running on a dedicated data warehouse, such as RedShift or Snowflake. Read the full article here.
This is a good takeaway:
“We are basically enabling companies to run their production BI directly on cloud data lake storage, so they no longer have to move the data from those systems into a data warehouse,” says Tomer Shiran, the co-founder and chief product officer of Dremio. “You’re actually getting faster performance at a much, much lower total cost.”
