buttaphingas

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by buttaphingas 2y ago
Snowflake has some examples of that: https://www.snowflake.com/blog/easy-secure-llm-inference-ret... https://quickstarts.snowflake.com/guide/asking_questions_to_... And I assume these new models w
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by buttaphingas 3y ago
Vendor says their solution is cheaper than competitor solution. I'm shocked.
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by buttaphingas 3y ago
Check out 0MQ (ZeroMQ), Informatica Ultra Messaging (formerly 29 West), and aeron.io They create reliable uni/multicast protocols over UDP, including strategies for NAK storms etc.
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by buttaphingas 4y ago
And to get the very best price for those clusters your you'd need to commit to the CSP for three years! Would love to know the TCO trade-off between procuring, securing and deploying on your own clusters vs having them managed via SaaS
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by buttaphingas 4y ago
It's all around the ethos of ease of use. Snowflake does a lot of smarts in the background so that you don't have the overhead of managing indexes. And not just indexes, there is just less human intervention required overall compa
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by buttaphingas 5y ago
They're still lacking things in the SQL space. For example, Databricks say they're ACID compliant, but it's only on a single-table basis. Snowflake offers multi-table ACID consistency, which is something that you would expect
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by buttaphingas 5y ago
But you do still have to secure the S3 buckets, right? And I guess also secure the infrastructure you have to deploy in order to run Databricks. Plus then configure for cross-AZ failover etc. So you get flexibility, but I would think at the
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by buttaphingas 5y ago
You can use Scala, Java and Python with Snowflake now, as well as process structured, semi-structured and unstructured data. So I guess that means it doesn't fit into the data warehouse category, but is not a lakehouse either.
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by buttaphingas 5y ago
I actually see them as variations on the same architecture. Databricks keeps their metadata in files, Snowflake keeps theirs in a database, but they both, ultimately, are querying data stored in a columnar format on blob store (and, to be f
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by buttaphingas 5y ago
Delta is open source, but Databricks keeps optimizations for themselves as proprietary. I'm not sure why it would be any better than Snowflake's solution, which is automatically deployed across multiple AZs as a fully HA system an
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by buttaphingas 5y ago
Databricks isn't open source, as they keep hold of all the IP that makes it much better than OS Spark. Whether you buy Snowflake or Databricks, you're buying proprietary software.
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by buttaphingas 5y ago
The "failover and failback for business continuity" is specifically for cross-region/cloud, i.e. this is something you explicitly have to do. tbh I've never used it, as I guess this would be only for very large accounts.
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by buttaphingas 5y ago
I've used Snowflake for the past few years, and it's worth pointing out that when it comes to overall cost, there's a lot you get with Snowflake for free. For example, they have HA across 3 AZs out of the box, included in the
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by buttaphingas 5y ago
This is incorrect. Every edition of Snowflake is deployed across multiple availability zones with automatic failover in the case of failure or AZ outage. This is included in the price and requires no configuration by the customer. Cross-clo