Is your Data Intelligence Platform Truly Open? A Comparison of Openness & Interoperability of Snowflake & Databricks By: James Dinkel As technology cycles accelerate and AI reshapes entire industries, openness and interoperability have become foundational requirements for any enterprise-ready data intelligence platform. Organizations must ensure that their enterprise platform delivers interoperability and consistent governance across […]
Is your Platform Enterprise Ready? A Comparison of Business-Critical Capabilities of Snowflake and Databricks By: James Dinkel It’s no secret that AI runs on data, but the implications of that are profound. If AI is automating your business capabilities, you need AI-ready data that’s reliable, governed, and available on an enterprise-ready platform.So, let’s dig into […]
Snowflake: Power Up, Costs Down By: James Dinkel In today’s data-driven landscape, velocity and efficiency are paramount. However, for organizations navigating the stringent regulations surrounding sensitive data – think HIPAA, GDPR, or PCI DSS – the pursuit of performance cannot come at the expense of robust privacy controls. In our experience, customers often struggle to […]
The Better Data Warehouse?? By: James Dinkel Last month Databricks CEO Ali Ghodsi claimed that Databricks had surpassed Snowflake in Data Warehousing capabilities. This does not even pass the sniff test. Snowflake is widely regarded as the premier data warehouse platform on the planet by all measures – in terms of features, performance and price-performance. […]
Unlock the Power of Data: Transforming Financial Services with the Data Cloud 📅 Date: December 17th, 2024 | ⏰ Time: 1-2pm CST | 🌐 Type: Virtual Event Join us for an exclusive webinar showcasing the Regional Bank & Credit Unions Financial Services Data Cloud. Hear from industry experts to understand how leading financial institutions […]
Snowflake DWH Migrations: Success where others failed! Plus: The why migrations to other platforms fail (and will continue to for the foreseeable future) Recently we had a customer come to us who had struggled with moving their data warehouse workloads to Databricks. They had been at it for a year at the time and hadn’t […]
Org Impact Analysis Spark based SaaS vs. SnowflakeA Case Study in Managed Service vs. Software as a Service In the majority of organizations: HSC – hardware, software, cloud accounts for 30% of the organizations budgetIL/VL – internal labor, vendor labor accounts for 70% of the organizations budget Yet, when people compare Spark based SaaS vs. […]
Can Databricks close the gap with Snowflake? Security Authorization Policy Management Comparison Earlier this month (5/3/23), Databricks purchased Okera in an attempt to close the security gap between itself and Snowflake. Can Databricks close that gap? How hard will it be to integrate Okera into delta lake? The short answer is No. The why is […]
Snowpark! By: James Dinkel We have migrated our Data Engineering Toolkit tooling to Snowpark and have absolutely fallen in love with it. Realize we come from the Spark world and probably know Spark as well or better than anyone in North America. The combination of Snowpark and Airflow (orchestration) is the best in the business, being […]
