Reduce Time to Complete Databricks Queries by up to 80% and Save up to 61% with Microsoft Azure Edsv4 VMs Featuring 2nd Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processors

Description

These VMs, with the Photon Vectorized Query Engine Enabled, Delivered Stronger Decision Support Workload Performance than Older VMs Featuring PreviousGeneration Processors

Choosing the right hardware is essential to getting optimal performance for your decision support workloads. It might seem obvious that updated hardware delivers better performance, but it’s not always clear just how much of an improvement your organization can expect by choosing the newer option and how much this extra performance costs. To explore these questions, we tested a decision support workload on a 20-node E8s_v3 cluster with Databricks Runtime 9.0 to get a baseline performance metric. The older Esv3 series from Azure offer VMs with processors ranging from the Intel® Xeon® E5-2673 v4 to the Intel Xeon 8272CL.