Most companies do not need Snowflake or Databricks

Agreed, not completely on duckdb but we used it for consolidating billing data from 10+ ERP systems and it works, so I see his point. Just to add to his points:

- Integrations are still one of the hardest things in Enterprise IT. Snowflake/Databricks/etc in fact add to the number of systems to integrate, they make this problem worst most of the times

- Governance in a self-service data ecosystem gets complicated fast, especially if you need to stay compliant with data privacy, gdpr, etc.. And amazingly again neither Snowflake nor Databricks solve this. In fact, they make it worst by sucking up budget away from governance initiatives

Re: Most companies do not need Snowflake or Databricks

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Post by tremon » Mon, Aug 21, 2023, 10:48 AM UTC

Of course they do not need it. 80% of companies can also do without AWS, they "just" need to hire the people themselves, and developer a core competency running and administering those services. It doesn't automatically mean that it makes financial sense for said company.

I guess "don't need" == "must not use" when you're selling yourself as filling that self-hosted gap.

Re: Most companies do not need Snowflake or Databricks

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Post by anonzzzies » Mon, Aug 21, 2023, 10:49 AM UTC

dna_polymerase wrote: post #4

73.6% of all statistics are made up

Just like the statistics in the title; in reality that number is vastly higher.

Re: Most companies do not need Snowflake or Databricks

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Post by Spooky23 » Mon, Aug 21, 2023, 10:50 AM UTC

dna_polymerase wrote: post #4

73.6% of all statistics are made up

9/10 dentists prefer snowflake.

Re: Most companies do not need Snowflake or Databricks

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Post by nycdatasci » Mon, Aug 21, 2023, 10:50 AM UTC

code51 wrote: post #3

Which use cases cannot do without Snowflake or Databricks?

Zero-copy, zero-etl data sharing.