{"id":8858,"date":"2023-04-06T07:15:02","date_gmt":"2023-04-06T07:15:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/47billion.com\/?p=8858"},"modified":"2024-12-23T05:17:38","modified_gmt":"2024-12-23T05:17:38","slug":"databricks-or-snowflake-an-impartial-comparison-of-the-top-data-platforms-for-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/47billion.com\/blog\/databricks-or-snowflake-an-impartial-comparison-of-the-top-data-platforms-for-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Databricks or Snowflake: An Impartial Comparison of the Top Data Platforms for 2023\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In 2012, Benoit Dageville and Thierry Cruanes, the integral members of a veteran group of Oracle data architects, wanted to identify better ways to store data than their on-premise data solutions. Meanwhile, Hadoop was a transformative product the industry had seen, and Cloudera came into momentum in 2014.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

They came up with the idea of building a cloud-native data warehouse in 2012 riding the wave of cloud adoption. The first product was launched in 2014. Snowflakes came into existence.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

By August 2022, it was grown to more than $50 billion in market cap. It became the stage for modernized data platforms.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Databricks followed soon after in 2013. It emerged from a university research project from the AMPLab project at the University of California, Berkley. Ali Ghodsi and co-researchers developed Apache Spark, a faster alternative to Hadoop. Then they worked to create the open source version of Spark, Databricks. Databricks was valued in a private venture round at $38 billion in August 2021.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2023<\/strong> both the titans became the giants in the industry. Their products represent the massive shift towards changing ways to manage and analyze data.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Traditionally companies used an on-premise data warehouse to store the data and run the after-the-fact analysis with BI dashboards. The rise of the cloud, along with tools like Databricks and Snowflake, has enabled this growing pool of data to help companies identify insights, improve products and make informed decisions.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

What is the usage of Snowflakes and Databricks?<\/strong> <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

To understand the contrast between Snowflake and Databricks, you must understand AI. The greatest misconception among executives is that AI can be easily used on data and derive insights overnight. Instead, building an effective AI model that delivers value for a business is a defined process.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This involves data gathering, cleaning, and preparation to build a model around that data. After multiple iterations, a model is ready to be operationalized.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Snowflakes and Databricks create value at different layers of this whole stack.<\/p>\n\n\n

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In the diagram above, Snowflake focuses on the left, from data storage to data engineering, including most of the components at the bottom, such as implementing security and legal policies on data. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the other hand, Databricks historically has focussed more on the steps from data modeling to operationalizing data models.\u202f <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Implementing analytics and big data<\/a> for every organization starts with understanding “What happened?” versus “What will happen?” <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Data warehouses store the data required to answer “What happened?” and Data lakes manage the data required for building models to answer “What will happen?”. <\/p>\n\n\n

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What is Snowflake?<\/strong> <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

It is a cloud data platform built on the foundation of a data warehouse. It enables customers to consolidate data into a single source of truth and drive meaningful business insights, build data-driven applications, and share data.\u202f <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The key features include the following \u2013\u202f <\/p>\n\n\n\n