Elastic Data Warehousing
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The document discusses elastic data warehousing using Snowflake's cloud-based data warehouse as a service. Traditional data warehousing and NoSQL solutions are costly and complex to manage. Snowflake provides a fully managed elastic cloud data warehouse that can scale instantly. It allows consolidating all data in one place and enables fast analytics on diverse data sources at massive scale, without the infrastructure complexity or management overhead of other solutions. Customers have realized significantly faster analytics, lower costs, and the ability to easily add new workloads compared to their previous data platforms.
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- 1. 1© 2017 Snowflake Computing Inc. All Rights Reserved. Y O U R D A T A , N O L I M I T S KENT GRAZIANO Senior Technical Evangelist Elastic Data Warehousing: Getting Your Data Fast
- 2. 2© 2017 Snowflake Computing Inc. All Rights Reserved. Today’s realities Web SaaS Excel Social CRM & ERP apps Web SaaS Hadoop & noSQL Datamarts Barriers to insight Analytics hindered by slow, incomplete access to data Costly, complex infrastructure Significant resources consumed to build and maintain data platforms Data challenges Silos of diverse data from diverse sources, growing rapidly
- 3. 3© 2017 Snowflake Computing Inc. All Rights Reserved. Limitations of current solutions Data warehousing Costly: • upfront capital costs, overprovisioning, … Complex: • partitioning, indexes, replication, … Inflexible: • forklift migrations, fixed schema, … noSQL platforms Complex: • new skills & tools Slow: • poor performance on analytics at scale Incomplete: • patchwork of tools, incomplete SQL, limited security, …
- 4. 4© 2017 Snowflake Computing Inc. All Rights Reserved. Expensive storage Cloud provides a new approach On-premises Cloud Limited resources High upfront costs Low-cost, infinite storage Elastic, unlimited resources Pay for only what you use
- 5. 5© 2017 Snowflake Computing Inc. All Rights Reserved. Our Vision: Reinvent the Data Warehouse Data Warehouse Performance & Enterprise Capabilities Big Data Flexibility &Scalability Data warehousing for everyone Cloud Elasticity & Agility
- 6. 6© 2017 Snowflake Computing Inc. All Rights Reserved. Making use of a cloud solution Diverse data in one system One place for data Rapid insights at any scale Fast analytics No infrastructure, knobs, or tuning Zero management Pay for only what you use A fraction of the cost
- 7. 7© 2017 Snowflake Computing Inc. All Rights Reserved. Enabled by Unique Technology Data warehouse as a service Automate and eliminate infrastructure & database management burden Database engine built for diverse data Relational database that natively stores and optimizes structured + semi-structured data New architecture for data warehousing Independently & elastically scale storage, compute, & concurrency
- 8. 8© 2017 Snowflake Computing Inc. All Rights Reserved. Multi-dimensional Elasticity Delivering Faster Analytics at any Scale Elastic scaling for storage Low-cost cloud storage, fully replicated and resilient Elastic scaling for compute Virtual warehouses scale up & down on the fly to support workload needs Elastic scaling for concurrency Scale concurrency using independent virtual warehouses 8 Loading / ETL Marketing Finance Sales Test / Dev Operations
- 9. 9© 2017 Snowflake Computing Inc. All Rights Reserved. Results
- 10. 10© 2017 Snowflake Computing Inc. All Rights Reserved. Integrating with Snowflake Relational Database Support • ANSI standard SQL • Advanced analytic functions Data Loading • Load with standard ETL Tools Query Access • Web UI • Standard BI tools • ODBC • JDBC • Advanced Analytics Internal Data External Data DataSources
- 11. 11© 2017 Snowflake Computing Inc. All Rights Reserved. Enabled by Unique Technology Datamart & data silo consolidation Consolidate legacy datamarts to eliminate silos and support new projects Integrated data analytics Directly load structured + semi-structured data into Snowflake for reporting & analytics Exploratory & ad hoc analytics Direct access to data for SQL analysts to explore data, identify correlations, build & test models
- 12. 12© 2017 Snowflake Computing Inc. All Rights Reserved. Delivering compelling results Simpler data pipeline Replace noSQL database with Snowflake for storing & transforming JSON event data Faster analytics Replace on-premises data warehouse with Snowflake for analytics workload Significantly lower cost Improved performance while adding new workloads--at a fraction of the cost noSQL data base: 8 hours to prepare data Snowflake: 1.5 minutes Data warehouse appliance: 20+ hours Snowflake: 45 minutes Data warehouse appliance: $5M + to expand Snowflake: added 2 new workloads for $50K
- 13. 13© 2017 Snowflake Computing Inc. All Rights Reserved. Accelerating analytics Scenario • Specialty insurer for small & medium business who relies on business and operational performance analytics Pain Points • Poor performance in legacy BI environment • Prohibitive cost ($500K) to expand current environment Solution • Deployed Snowflake to support reporting and dashboards, while still using existing tools and reports Snowflake Value • 120x faster — from 20+ hours to 45 minutes • Pay-per-use as they grow • Easy deployment + no maintenance Profiles Ratings Losses 45 minutes
- 14. 14© 2017 Snowflake Computing Inc. All Rights Reserved. Conclusion? Elastic Data Warehousing is: A Reality! Scalable Flexible Secure Stable Lower TCO Snowflake has Developed: An all-new elastic data warehouse designed for the cloud • Data warehouse as a service (no knobs!) • Delivers compelling performance • Hands diverse data from multiple sources • Without the cost and complexity of traditional solutions
- 15. Contact Information KENT GRAZIANO Snowflake Computing kent.graziano@snowflake.net @KentGraziano, @SnowflakeDB http://snowflake.net/resources Thank You!
- 16. 16© 2017 Snowflake Computing Inc. All Rights Reserved. YOUR DATA, NO LIMITS Thank You!