What is Dremio?
Open, high-performance data lakehouse platform built to accelerate AI and analytical workloads across enterprise data with unified data governance, AI agents, and semantic layers.
Dremio pricing
Plans, per-tier features and add-ons, dated and linked to live pricing. Pricing changes often; always verify at source before you rely on it.
From $0.20 per DCU. Free Community Edition. 30-day free trial.
Dremio Cloud
Fully managed lakehouse on AWS with automatic scaling
- Fully managed infrastructure (AWS, Azure coming soon)
- Automatic scaling and optimization
- Automatic feature releases
- Zero infrastructure management
- AI Agent
- AI Semantic Layer
- Intelligent Query Engine
- Open Catalog (Apache Polaris)
- Enterprise-ready security
Dremio Enterprise
Contact salesSelf-managed software with full control and customization
- Self-managed on Kubernetes, on-premises, or cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP)
- Full control over infrastructure, security, compliance
- Flexible deployment options
- AI Agent
- AI Semantic Layer
- Intelligent Query Engine
- Open Catalog (Apache Polaris)
- Enterprise-ready security
- Manual scaling and updates
Dremio Community Edition
FreeFree query engine for local machines or servers
- Query engine
What Dremio does
The capabilities that matter for data warehouse software, normalised so it lines up with every alternative. “-” means we haven't confirmed it, not that it's missing.
- Deployment
- Managed cloud
- Architecture
- Separated storage/compute
- Compute model
- -
- SQL dialect
- -
- Federation / lakehouse query-in-place
- ✓
- Table-format support
- Apache Iceberg
- Concurrency scaling
- Automatic
- Streaming ingest
- -
- Semi-structured (JSON/VARIANT)
- Functional
- ML / in-DB functions
- -
- Data sharing / marketplace
- -
- Licence class
- Proprietary
Platform & deployment
Independently observed- CLI
- Web
- Cloud / SaaS
- Hybrid
- On-premise
- Self-hosted
Integrations (5)
Independently observed- Okta
- Microsoft Entra ID
- Google Identity
- MCP (Model Context Protocol)
- BI tools
Dremio alternatives
Other data warehouse software we track, ranked by the same independent score.
- SingleStoreThe Real-Time AI Database for Enterprise. Answers Included.medium · 64%
- Snowflakelow · 49%
- Apache IcebergThe open table format for analytic datasets.low · 34%
- Delta LakeBuild Lakehouses with Delta Lakelow · 41%
- DuckDBRun analytics where your data liveslow · 36%
- DatabricksA unified platform for data, analytics and AIlow · 29%
The Vioscale score: one lens on the evidence
Not user reviews and not a paid placement: a confidence-weighted blend of the independent signals below (adoption, activity, security posture, and more), which you can sort and re-weight yourself. Vendors can correct their listing but can never move their rank, and stars are weighted low as a vanity metric. It is one way to read the evidence for Dremio, not the verdict.
| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reliability | 100 | 30.00 | 2985.0 | ✓ |
| Security Posture | 75 | 22.00 | 1650.0 | ✓ |
| Price Level | 80 | 8.00 | 640.0 | ✓ |
| Pricing Transparency | 45 | 12.00 | 540.0 | ✓ |
| Integrations | 22 | 16.00 | 358.1 | ✓ |
| Capabilities | 29 | 12.00 | 346.9 | ✓ |
Computed . Re-weight it by intent, or see the full method.
All data & sourcesshow ↓
Every value we hold, with its source, retrieval date, and confidence. This is the evidence behind the score: don't trust it, verify it.
Features
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | {"deployment":"managed","architecture":"separated","license_class":"proprietary","table_formats":"Apache Iceberg","semi_structured":"functional","federation_query":true,"concurrency_scaling":"automatic"} | mediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60% |
Integrations
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Count | 5 | mediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60% |