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 […]
Build your Lakehouse in the data cloud with Snowflake By: Tim Fox, CTO I’ve spent the past 6 years living in data lakes and transitioning to lake houses. The move to Data Cloud with snowflake makes a bunch of sense to me for many reasons. Here are a few notable ones: ❄ Simplified Architecture: Lakehouse […]
