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 Software Enterprise Edition (26.1) and Dremio Cloud Enterprise Edition, helping you identify the right solution for your organization’s analytics and data platform requirements.

Billing and Deployment

	Dremio Software Enterprise Edition (26.1)	Dremio Cloud Enterprise Edition
Billing Model	Consumption-based	Consumption-based
Deployment	Self-managed on Kubernetes. On-premises, Cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP)	Fully-managed (AWS)
Free Trial	30 days	$400 credit for 30 days

Open Catalog Powered by Polaris

	Dremio Software Enterprise Edition (26.1)	Dremio Cloud Enterprise Edition
Hosted Data Catalog	Yes	Yes
Time Travel	Yes	Yes
Automatic Optimization	Yes	Yes
Clustering	Yes	Yes
External Engines	Yes	Yes

Governance

	Dremio Software Enterprise Edition (26.1)	Dremio Cloud Enterprise Edition
Data Lineage	Yes	Yes
Audit History	Yes	Yes
Fine-grained Access Control (Row/Column)	Yes	Yes
External Access Policy Providers (e.g., Ranger or Privacera)	Yes¹	No

¹Supported for Spaces. Not supported for Dremio's Open Catalog.

Intelligent Query Engine

	Dremio Software Enterprise Edition (26.1)	Dremio Cloud Enterprise Edition
Cost-based Query Optimizer	Yes	Yes
Query History	Yes	Yes
Live Reflections	Yes	Yes
Autonomous Reflections	Yes - Off by Default	Yes - Always On
Results Cache	Yes	Yes
Columnar Cloud Cache (C3)	Yes	Yes
Federated Query	Yes	Yes
Plan Cache	Yes	Yes

AI Semantic Layer

	Dremio Software Enterprise Edition (26.1)	Dremio Cloud Enterprise Edition
AI-enabled Semantic Search	Yes (Preview)	Yes (Preview)
Data Curation and Transformation	Yes	Yes
Wikis and Labels	Yes	Yes
Wiki and Label Generation (powered by Generative AI)	No	Yes

AI

	Dremio Software Enterprise Edition (26.1)	Dremio Cloud Enterprise Edition
Dremio-Provided LLM	No	Yes
Bring Your Own Model – Google Gemini, OpenAI, Anthropic, Azure OpenAI, AWS Bedrock	Yes	Yes
Dremio MCP Server	OSS	OSS and Dremio-hosted¹
Dremio AI Agent	Yes	Yes
AI Functions	Yes	Yes

¹Dremio-hosted is recommended.

Source Connectors

	Dremio Software Enterprise Edition (26.1)	Dremio Cloud Enterprise Edition
Lakehouse Catalogs
Dremio's Open Catalog	Yes	Yes
AWS Glue Data Catalog	Yes	Yes
Hive Metastore	Yes	No
Iceberg REST Catalog	Yes	Yes
Snowflake Open Catalog	Yes	Yes
Unity Catalog	Yes	Yes
Object Storage
Amazon S3	Yes	Yes
Azure Data Lake Storage	Yes	Yes
Google Cloud Storage	Yes	No
HDFS	Yes	No
NAS	Yes	No
Databases
Apache Druid	Yes	Yes
Amazon Redshift	Yes	Yes
Azure Synapse Analytics	Yes	Yes
Google BigQuery	Yes	Yes
IBM DB2	Yes	Yes
Microsoft SQL Server	Yes	Yes
MySQL	Yes	Yes
Oracle	Yes	Yes
PostgreSQL	Yes	Yes
SAP HANA	Yes	Yes
Snowflake	Yes	Yes
Teradata	Yes	No
Vertica	Yes	Yes
Non-relational
Amazon OpenSearch Service	Yes	No
ElasticSearch	Yes	No
Azure Data Explorer	Yes	No
MongoDB	Yes	Yes
Custom
Custom source connectors (JDBC)	Yes	No

Client Connectivity

	Dremio Software Enterprise Edition (26.1)	Dremio Cloud Enterprise Edition
Native Connector for Tableau	Yes	Yes
Native Connector for Power BI Powered by ADBC	Yes	Yes
Support for Additional Client Applications	Yes	Yes
Apache Arrow Flight SQL	Yes	Yes
Arrow Flight SQL JDBC and ODBC	Yes	Yes

Open File and Table Formats

	Dremio Software Enterprise Edition (26.1)	Dremio Cloud Enterprise Edition
Apache Iceberg	Yes	Yes
Parquet	Yes	Yes
CSV, JSON, and Excel	Yes	Yes
Delta Lake	Yes	Yes
UniForm	Yes	Yes

Platform

	Dremio Software Enterprise Edition (26.1)	Dremio Cloud Enterprise Edition
Out-of-the-box Monitoring Metrics	Yes	Yes
High Availability	Configurable	Yes
Intracluster Encryption	Configurable	Yes
Custom Workload Management	Yes	Yes
Engine Auto - Start/Stop	Yes	Yes
Engine Replica Scaling	No	Yes
Control Plane	Self-hosted	Dremio-hosted
Execution Plane	Self-hosted	Dremio-hosted
Project Store	Self-hosted	Dremio-hosted or Self-hosted
Upgrades	Downtime	Zero Downtime
File Upload	Promoted Dremio Table	Iceberg Table
PrivateLink	N/A	Yes

Identity and Access Management

	Dremio Software Enterprise Edition (26.1)	Dremio Cloud Enterprise Edition
Local Identities	Yes	Yes
Personal Access Tokens	Yes	Yes
External LDAP or OpenID Identity Provider	Yes	Yes
Role-Based Access Control	Yes	Yes
Custom Roles	Yes	Yes
Service Users	Yes	No (Coming Soon)
Social Identity Providers	No	Yes
OAuth Apps	No	Yes
External Token Providers	Yes	Yes

Compliance

	Dremio Software Enterprise Edition (26.1)	Dremio Cloud Enterprise Edition
Security Certifications	SOC 11, ISO 27001, HIPAA, GDPR, CCPA	SOC 2 Type 11, ISO 27001, HIPAA, GDPR, CCPA

Pricing

	Dremio Software Enterprise Edition (26.1)	Dremio Cloud Enterprise Edition
Pay As You Go	No	Yes
Pre-purchase / Commit	Yes	Yes
Cloud Marketplace	AWS, Azure	AWS

Customer Support

	Dremio Software Enterprise Edition (26.1)	Dremio Cloud Enterprise Edition
Dremio Community Portal	Yes	Yes
Support – Bronze, Silver, Gold Tiers	Yes	Yes
Dremio Admin as a Service	Yes	N/A

Billing and Deployment​

Open Catalog Powered by Polaris​

Governance​

Intelligent Query Engine​

AI Semantic Layer​

AI​

Source Connectors​

Client Connectivity​

Open File and Table Formats​

Platform​

Identity and Access Management​

Compliance​

Pricing​

Customer Support​