Dremio Editions
Dremio offers both self-managed and fully-managed deployment options to meet the diverse needs of modern data teams. These feature matrices outline the capabilities and services available across the Dremio Community (26.0+), Dremio Enterprise (26.1) and Dremio Cloud, helping you identify the right solution for your organization’s analytics and data platform requirements.
Billing and Deployment
| Dremio Community (26.0+) | Dremio Enterprise (26.1) | Dremio Cloud | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Billing Model | Free | Consumption-based | Consumption-based |
| Deployment | Self-managed on Docker or Kubernetes. On-premises, Cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP) | Self-managed on Kubernetes. On-premises, Cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP) | Fully-managed (AWS) |
| Free Trial | N/A | 30 days | $400 credit for 30 days |
Open Catalog Powered by Polaris
| Dremio Community (26.0+) | Dremio Enterprise (26.1) | Dremio Cloud | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hosted Data Catalog | No | Yes | Yes |
| Time Travel | No | Yes | Yes |
| Automatic Optimization | No | Yes | Yes |
| Clustering | No | Yes | Yes |
| External Engines | No | Yes | Yes |
Governance
| Dremio Community (26.0+) | Dremio Enterprise (26.1) | Dremio Cloud | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Data Lineage | No | Yes | Yes |
| Audit History | No | Yes | Yes |
| Fine-grained Access Control (Row/Column) | No | Yes | Yes |
| External Access Policy Providers (e.g., Ranger or Privacera) | No | Yes1 | No |
1Supported for Spaces. Not supported for Dremio's Open Catalog.
Intelligent Query Engine
| Dremio Community (26.0+) | Dremio Enterprise (26.1) | Dremio Cloud | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cost-based Query Optimizer | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Query History | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Live Reflections | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Autonomous Reflections | No | Yes - Off by Default | Yes - Always On |
| Results Cache | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Columnar Cloud Cache (C3) | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Federated Query | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Plan Cache | Yes | Yes | Yes |
AI Semantic Layer
| Dremio Community (26.0+) | Dremio Enterprise (26.1) | Dremio Cloud | |
|---|---|---|---|
| AI-enabled Semantic Search | No | Yes (Preview) | Yes (Preview) |
| Data Curation and Transformation | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Wikis and Labels | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Wiki and Label Generation (powered by Generative AI) | No | No | Yes |
AI
| Dremio Community (26.0+) | Dremio Enterprise (26.1) | Dremio Cloud | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dremio-Provided LLM | No | No | Yes |
| Bring Your Own Model – Google Gemini, OpenAI, Anthropic, Azure OpenAI, AWS Bedrock | No | Yes | Yes |
| Dremio MCP Server | OSS | OSS | OSS and Dremio-hosted1 |
| Dremio AI Agent | No | Yes | Yes |
| AI Functions | Yes | Yes | Yes |
1Dremio-hosted is recommended.
Source Connectors
| Dremio Community (26.0+) | Dremio Enterprise (26.1) | Dremio Cloud 1 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lakehouse Catalogs | |||||
| Dremio's Open Catalog | No | Yes | Yes | ||
| AWS Glue Data Catalog | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||
| Hive Metastore | Yes | Yes | No | ||
| Iceberg REST Catalog | No | Yes | Yes | ||
| Snowflake Open Catalog | No | Yes | Yes | ||
| Unity Catalog | No | Yes | Yes | ||
| Object Storage | |||||
| Amazon S3 | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||
| Azure Data Lake Storage | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||
| Google Cloud Storage | Yes | Yes | No | ||
| HDFS | Yes | Yes | No | ||
| NAS | Yes | Yes | No | ||
| Databases | |||||
| Apache Druid | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||
| Amazon Redshift | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||
| Azure Synapse Analytics | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||
| Dremio Enterprise | No | Yes | Yes | ||
| Google BigQuery | No | Yes | Yes | ||
| IBM DB2 | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||
| Microsoft SQL Server | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||
| MySQL | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||
| Oracle | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||
| PostgreSQL | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||
| SAP HANA | No | Yes | Yes | ||
| Snowflake | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||
| Teradata | No | Yes | No | ||
| Vertica | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||
| Non-relational | |||||
| Amazon OpenSearch Service | Yes | Yes | No | ||
| ElasticSearch | Yes | Yes | No | ||
| Azure Data Explorer | Yes | Yes | No | ||
| MongoDB | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||
| Custom | |||||
| Custom source connectors (JDBC) | Yes | Yes | No | ||
1Private networking not supported: Except for Dremio's Open Catalog, all Dremio Cloud data source connections require public networking. Ensure that the data source endpoint is publicly accessible and that network egress rules, firewall settings, and IAM permissions are properly configured to allow outbound connectivity from Dremio to the source.
Client Connectivity
| Dremio Community (26.0+) | Dremio Enterprise (26.1) | Dremio Cloud | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Native Connector for Tableau | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Native Connector for Power BI Powered by ADBC | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Support for Additional Client Applications | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Apache Arrow Flight SQL | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Arrow Flight SQL JDBC and ODBC | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Open File and Table Formats
| Dremio Community (26.0+) | Dremio Enterprise (26.1) | Dremio Cloud | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apache Iceberg | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Parquet | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| CSV, JSON, and Excel | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Delta Lake | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| UniForm | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Platform
| Dremio Community (26.0+) | Dremio Enterprise (26.1) | Dremio Cloud | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Out-of-the-box Monitoring Metrics | No | Yes | Yes |
| High Availability | No | Configurable | Yes |
| Intracluster Encryption | Configurable | Configurable | Yes |
| Custom Workload Management | No | Yes | Yes |
| Engine Auto - Start/Stop | No | Yes | Yes |
| Engine Replica Scaling | No | No | Yes |
| Control Plane | Self-hosted | Self-hosted | Dremio-hosted |
| Execution Plane | Self-hosted | Self-hosted | Dremio-hosted |
| Project Store | Self-hosted | Self-hosted | Dremio-hosted or Self-hosted |
| Upgrades | Downtime | Downtime | Zero Downtime |
| File Upload | Promoted Dremio Table | Promoted Dremio Table | Iceberg Table |
| PrivateLink | N/A | N/A | Yes1 |
1PrivateLink is available only for inbound connections to Dremio Cloud, not for outbound connections to sources.
Identity and Access Management
| Dremio Community (26.0+) | Dremio Enterprise (26.1) | Dremio Cloud | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Local Identities | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Personal Access Tokens | No | Yes | Yes |
| External LDAP or OpenID Identity Provider | No | Yes | Yes |
| Role-Based Access Control | No | Yes | Yes |
| Custom Roles | No | Yes | Yes |
| Service Users | No | Yes | No (Coming Soon) |
| Social Identity Providers | No | No | Yes |
| OAuth Apps | No | No | Yes |
| External Token Providers | No | Yes | Yes |
Compliance
| Dremio Community (26.0+) | Dremio Enterprise (26.1) | Dremio Cloud | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Security Certifications | N/A | SOC 11, ISO 27001, HIPAA, GDPR, CCPA | SOC 2 Type 11, ISO 27001, HIPAA, GDPR, CCPA |
Pricing
| Dremio Community (26.0+) | Dremio Enterprise (26.1) | Dremio Cloud | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pay As You Go | N/A | No | Yes |
| Pre-purchase / Commit | N/A | Yes | Yes |
| Cloud Marketplace | N/A | AWS, Azure | AWS |
Customer Support
| Dremio Community (26.0+) | Dremio Enterprise (26.1) | Dremio Cloud | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dremio Community Portal | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Support – Bronze, Silver, Gold Tiers | No | Yes | Yes |
| Dremio Admin as a Service | No | Yes | N/A |