Query Curious Data Engineering blog by Maria Zakourdaev

About the author

I am a Data Platform Microsoft MVP and a technology expert with more than 20 years of experience, a community leader with a profound knowledge of Microsoft products and services, while also being able to bring together diverse platforms, products, and solutions, to solve real-world problems. I have a hands-on experience managing various data management technologies in Azure, AWS and Google public cloud platforms, including SQL Server, Azure CosmosDB, AWS DynamoDB, MemSQL, MySQL, Postgres,Snowflake, Redis, Clickhouse and many more. You can follow me on LinkedIN https://www.linkedin.com/in/redheaddba/

Tag: databricks

When to use Clickhouse and when to use Databricks

We use both ClickHouse and Databricks for different data analytics use cases. A recurring question is often asked: when to use each platform. I’ve created the decision tree below to help developers choose, and would be happy to hear your thoughts.

Dec 18, 2025

Embrace Delta Lakes and reduce the SQL Server compute resources contention

Data management tools are evolving at a great speed, and this can be overwhelming.Data volumes and variety evolve and grow as well.Data Engineers are required to transform those waterfalls of data into business insights. The data is…

Jul 12, 2021