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> What happened? Marketing. Everyone has heard of Snowflake. And not just IT people. Finance, marketing, I’m sure even the cleaners have heard how wonderful
by mr_toad 5y ago
> What happened?
Marketing. Everyone has heard of Snowflake. And not just IT people. Finance, marketing, I’m sure even the cleaners have heard how wonderful it is.
Redshift on the other hand is something that a lot of IT people and even some data warehousing people seem unaware of.
There are many people who seem to think that Snowflake is the only option.
- macintux 5y agoMaybe, but I've not heard of either.
- pid-1 5y agoSnowflake legit has some features Redshift doesn't, the killer one IMO being auto scaling for computing resources. That is really awesome for infrequent workloads. Last week AWS uncovered Redshift Serverless, but still on technical preview. Another point, Snowflake is just easier to use. I've seen young developers who knew a bit of database stuff setup and play with it with little help. Redshift on the other hand is much more entrenched in the whole AWS mess and requires one to understand shit like VPCs, security groups, IAM, cloud watch, etc....