>This right here is exactly why Snowflake is a good fit for my org.: we could pay someone's salary to install, maintain, and upgrade some open source alternative (and the VPS to run it), or we could just pay for Snowflake and stop wasting engineering's time on the Data Science's team's stuff, which frees them up to move faster on the core platform features bringing in the big bucks.
The cost problem really is out of control. You'd come out ahead financially pretty quickly with a DIY solution. DBUs are on the order of ~100x the actual underlying compute cost. I simply cannot understand how anyone chooses this over running your own Spark clusters with Jupyterlab. There are single-click image deploys that do this stuff.
The cost problem really is out of control. You'd come out ahead financially pretty quickly with a DIY solution. DBUs are on the order of ~100x the actual underlying compute cost. I simply cannot understand how anyone chooses this over running your own Spark clusters with Jupyterlab. There are single-click image deploys that do this stuff.