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Comparison

Databricks vs Trino

No clear leader: Databricks (52.9) and Trino (50.7) are within the 5-point margin; treat as a tie. The attribute-by-attribute breakdown below, with a source and date on every value, is the honest way to compare them.

Databricks full profile →Trino full profile →
Machine formatsMarkdownJSONGraphQLMarkdown is open. JSON and GraphQL need a free key.
Databricks53
Trino51
Score
vioscaleAI score
Databricks53 / 100low · 47%
Trino51 / 100medium · 54%
Pricing
Free tier
Databricks✓
Trino✓
Model
Databricksfree
Trinoopen_source
Price level
Databricksfree
Trinofree
Transparent
Databricks✗
Trino✓
Integrations
Count
Databricks14
Trino10
Security
Disclosure policy
Databricks✓
Trino–
Scorecard
Databricks–
Trino5.6
Trust center
Vulnerabilities
Reliability
Status page
Databricks✓
Trino–
Adoption
Dependent repos
Databricks–
Trino468
Github stars
Databricks–
Trino13,330
Activity
Commits last 30d
Databricks–
Trino100
Release
Cadence days
Databricks–
Trino45
History
Databricks–
Trino7 items
License
Spdx
Databricks–
TrinoApache-2.0
Language
Primary
Databricks–
TrinoJava
Market
Availability
Content
Faq
Databricks6 items
Trino6 items

Capabilities

Feature-by-feature on the axes that matter for data warehouse software. “-” means undocumented, not absent.

Deployment
Deployment
DatabricksManaged cloud
TrinoSelf-hosted
Architecture
Architecture
DatabricksSeparated storage/compute
TrinoCoupled MPP
Compute model
DatabricksServerless
TrinoClusters
Query
SQL dialect
DatabricksVendor-specific
TrinoANSI SQL
Federation / lakehouse query-in-place
Databricks-
Trino✓
Interoperability
Table-format support
DatabricksDelta, Iceberg
Trino-
Scale
Concurrency scaling
DatabricksAutomatic
Trino-
Ingestion
Streaming ingest
Databricks✓
Trino-
Data model
Semi-structured (JSON/VARIANT)
DatabricksFirst-class
Trino-
Analytics
ML / in-DB functions
Databricks✓
Trino-
Sharing
Data sharing / marketplace
Databricks✓
Trino-
Licensing
Licence class
DatabricksProprietary
TrinoPermissive OSS

What each one is

The product in its own terms, so the numbers below have context.

Databricks

An integrated data and AI platform built on open formats that merges transactional reliability with analytics and machine learning capabilities, enabling organizations to manage data, models, and AI applications together without vendor lock-in.

Independently observed

Trino

Trino is an open-source SQL query engine designed for fast analytics on big data. It enables distributed querying across multiple data sources and integrates with numerous data processing, visualization, and analytics tools.

Independently observed

Pricing

List pricing as published by each vendor, with the date we read it. Always verify at the source before you buy.

Databricks

from $0.07/moUsage-basedFree tier

Pay-as-you-go usage-based pricing from $0.069 / DBU or CU per second. Committed Use Contracts available for volume discounts. Free tier available.

  • Data EngineeringFrom $0.15 / DBU per second
    • Orchestrate data processing
    • Build streaming and batch pipelines
    • Ingest data from multiple sources
  • Data WarehousingFrom $0.22 / DBU per second
    • SQL analytics
    • BI reporting
    • Available in Classic and Serverless compute
  • Interactive WorkloadsFrom $0.40 / DBU per second
    • Data science workloads
    • Build custom applications
    • Security and governance
  • Operational DatabaseFrom $0.069 / CU per second
    • Postgres database
    • Data and feature serving
  • Artificial IntelligenceFrom $0.07 / DBU per second
    • GenAI applications
    • Model Serving
    • AI Functions
    • Model Training
  • GenieFree
    • Natural language Q&A
    • AI Coding Assistant
    • Enterprise Knowledge access
as of verify ↗

Trino

Open source
as of verify ↗

Platform & deployment

Where each product runs and how it can be hosted. A dash means undocumented, not unsupported.

Platforms
Web
Databricks✓
Trino✓
Android
Databricks✓
Trino✗
macOS
Databricks✗
Trino✓
Linux
Databricks✗
Trino✓
CLI
Databricks✗
Trino✓
Deployment
Cloud / SaaS
Databricks✓
Trino✗
Self-hosted
Databricks✗
Trino✓

Integrations

What each product connects to. Counts come from the vendor's own integration directory where one exists.

In common (1)
  • dbt

Databricks

22 total - 21 not shared
  • Teams
  • Slack
  • Confluence
  • Power Platform
  • Copilot Studio
  • Zerobus
  • Microsoft Power Platform
  • Microsoft Teams
  • Apache Spark
  • MLflow
  • Delta Lake
  • Apache Iceberg
  • Unity Catalog
  • Lakeflow
  • Databricks SQL
  • Databricks Genie
  • Lakebase
  • Trino
  • LangChain
  • PyTorch
  • DSPy
Independently observed

Trino

28 total - 27 not shared
  • Grafana
  • Apache Airflow
  • Apache DolphinScheduler
  • Coginiti
  • Cube
  • DBeaver
  • DbVisualizer
  • Emacs
  • Tableau
  • Power BI
  • Superset
  • R
  • Hadoop
  • S3
  • Cassandra
  • MySQL
  • Elasticsearch
  • Fugue
  • Logi Symphony
  • Mitzu
  • DolphinScheduler
  • Cognos Analytics
  • MicroStrategy
  • JupySQL
  • +3 more
Independently observed
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Databricks or Trino: which one depends on you

A composite score cannot know your constraints. Describe them and both get re-weighted against what you actually need, with the evidence behind every position.

Free to run, no account needed to start. How the evaluation works

Comparison generated from independently-sourced facts. Every value links to its source and retrieval date. See the method.