2019-06-25T10:55:00Z

What is the biggest difference between Apache Hadoop and Snowflake?

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What is the biggest difference between Apache Hadoop and Snowflake? Which of these two solutions would you recommend to a colleague evaluating data warehouse systems and why?

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it_user1108338 - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant at Tata Consultancy Services
Real User
2019-06-26T09:07:59Z
Jun 26, 2019

Interactive querying as a consumption pattern is something Snowflake handles much better than Hadoop and related query engine options - Impala, Presto, Drill etc. Heavy data scientists query workload can be an expensive query pattern on Snowflake and Hadoop can provide a more cost-efficient solution. Hadoop is also still relevant as a back-end data processing engine, instead of leveraging Snowflake for data transformation due to higher cost as well as limited procedural language capabilities (javascript based stored procedures). Snowflake fares much better than Hadoop in terms of administrative complexity.

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it_user1274238 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
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2020-02-03T21:29:06Z
Feb 3, 2020

Apache Hadoop is for data lake use cases. But getting data out of Hadoop for meaningful analytics is indeed need quite an amount of work. by either using spark/Hive/presto and so on. The way i look at Snowflake and Hadoop is they complement each other. For data lake you can use hadoop and then for datawarehouse companies can use snowflake. Depending on the size of the company you can turn snowflake into a data lake use case too. Snowflake is SQL friendly and you don't need to carry out any circus to get the data in and out of snowflake.

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Hello community,  I work for a large tech services company. I am currently researching data warehouse solutions. Which solution do you prefer: Oracle Exadata or Snowflake? Which solution performs better and has more cost savings? Thank you for your help.
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This is a large and complex question and depends on the use case and scale. Each platform has its advantages and there are significant pros and cons for each platform. I am an independent consultant; I teach courses about these platforms and how to select one; and I advise clients.  If you would like to have a discussion about your requirements, the tradeoffs, and how to go about getting the best platform for your business, please email me at richard@wintercorp.com or book me online (no charge) at solvethepuzzle.biz
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Tomasz Rabong - PeerSpot reviewer
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Hello peers, I am looking for a data catalog vendor or open-source with the following DB data sources: Teradata MS SQL HANA Hadoop/Hive and BI data sources: SAP BO 4.0 Tableau Server 2022.1 Can you please advise? I appreciate the help.
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Director of Community at PeerSpot (formerly IT Central Station)
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Hi @Delmar Assis, @Angel Pineda, @reviewer1318779, @George McGeachie, @Carel Van Der Merwe and @Moorthy Natarajan, Can you please assist @Tomasz Rabong ​with their question?​​ ​ ​ ​ ​
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Hi Tomasz Rabong,  I believe that if you have a developer team in Amundsen it would be possible.  Alternatively, you can look at Informatica EDC or at Data Virtualization Data Catalog (from Denodo).
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