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Re:Ask HN: What does your BI stack look like?
on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @11:08AM (#21525682)
ORLY? Redshift is half the cost of Snowflake for any given level of performance. The bigger your dataset to wider the gap will be.
Re:Streaming Cassandra at WePay
on Tuesday July 16, 2019 @03:48PM (#20453267)
Ha, $500k/year is the amount a salesperson can knock off the cost of Teradata 100TB setup without calling their boss.
As for ops stuff, I guess YMMV. We’ve never had any significant issues. Tuning is the same or less than on-prem systems IME.
Perf is still pretty much unmatched in the cloud, especially perf/$. Try to do a join on 100tb in a competing system (e.g. BQ) and it won’t finish.
Re:Streaming Cassandra at WePay
on Sunday July 14, 2019 @10:50PM (#20437763)
> Redshift falls over near the 100TB level.
This is based on what? They have stated in various presentations that they have customers using 1pb clusters.
Re:Finally Migrating from Redshift to Snowflake. Share your experience?
on Tuesday July 09, 2019 @10:38AM (#20392177)
Snowflake has one answer to every question. Use more compute == Spend more money.
E.g. Q: “This query is 2x slower than Redshift?” A: $