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Comment by glogla

Clickhouse is good if you're building application. It has lot of great features and incredible performance, but there's an expectancy that people using it know what they're doing and can work around its limitations (like limited support for joins and sql in general).

Something like Snowflake works much better when you're building a platform that you can give to two hundred data analysts or various skills spread over fifty teams, so they can build their own stuff. The nice UI, broad feature set (materialized views, time travel, automatic backups, superfast scaling up and down, ...) and general just-work-iness makes it nice for that, but you're going to pay for the privilege.

Databricks is somewhere in the middle - things are way less polished, features don't always work and you still have to figure out things like backups and partitions on S3 on your own, but some people like that. Expect to also pay a pretty penny for hundreds of Spark clusters nobody knows who uses.

parent glogla 5 years ago

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