Azure Synapse Analytics vs PrestoDB

Azure Synapse Analytics plans

• Serverless SQL poolPriced on request
• Dedicated SQL pool — pay as you goPriced on request
• Dedicated SQL pool — 1-year reservedPriced on request
• Dedicated SQL pool — 3-year reservedPriced on request
• Apache Spark — Memory OptimizedPriced on request
• Apache Spark — GPU acceleratedPriced on request

PrestoDB plans

• PrestoDBFree
• Presto open-source distributionFree

Pick Azure Synapse Analytics if…

It suits teams that need cloud analytics options for data lakes, SQL warehousing, Spark processing, or log and telemetry analysis. It may also fit workloads that use streaming ingestion or in-database machine learning.

Pick PrestoDB if…

PrestoDB suits teams that need to query large datasets across different systems and can manage a self-hosted deployment. It may not fit teams looking for the full feature set of a standard database.