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Polars Cloud and Distributed Polars now available

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Re: Polars Cloud and Distributed Polars now available

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Post by weinzierl »

Out of curiosity and because I don't want to create a test account right now:

How does billing with "Deploy on AWS" work? Do I need to bring my own AWS account and Polars is payed for the image through AWS or am I billed by Polars and they pass a share to AWS. In other words do I have a contract primarily with AWS or Polars?

Re: Polars Cloud and Distributed Polars now available

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Post by ritchie46 »

willvarfar wrote: post #2

Hmm so how does the polars SQLContext stack up against duckdb? And can both cope with a distributed polars? It feels like we are on the path to reinventing BigQuery.

Hi, I am the original author and CEO of Polars. We are not focused on SQL at this time and provide a DataFrame native API.

Polars cloud will for the moment only support our DataFrame API. SQL might come later on the roadmap, but since this market is very saturated, we don't feel there is much need there.

Re: Polars Cloud and Distributed Polars now available

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Post by rorads »

anonu wrote: post #3

So competing with SnowFlake?

EDIT: I think the below is correct, but I’ve just seen in the main product landing page that for a certain benchmark it’s an order of magnitude cheaper AND faster than AWS glue, so that’s the target market by the looks of things.

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I don’t think so - probably more in the realms of spark and, based on the roadmap, airflow.

For me it would be about doing big data analytics / dashboarding / ML or DS data prep.

My understanding is that Snowflake plays a lot in the data warehouse/lakehouse space, so is more central to data ops / cataloguing / SSOT type work.

But hey that’s all first impressions from the press release.

Re: Polars Cloud and Distributed Polars now available

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Post by ritchie46 »

weinzierl wrote: post #5

Out of curiosity and because I don't want to create a test account right now: How does billing with "Deploy on AWS" work? Do I need to bring my own AWS account and Polars is payed for the image through AWS or am I billed by Polars and they pass a share to AWS. In other words do I have a contract primarily with AWS or Polars?

Your billing partner is AWS. Polars' markup is on your AWS bill.

Re: Polars Cloud and Distributed Polars now available

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Post by gigatexal »

Cool. But abstract away the infra knowledge to the actual instance types. Instead I’d expect the polars cloud abstraction to find me the most cost effective (spot instance) that meets my cpu and memory reqs and disk reqs. Why do I have to give it — looking at the example — the AWS instance type?
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