> With Snowflake you are paying for not only the development of the product, the hosting of it, the engineers to run it, but also the sales, marketing, and management behind it.
and you can run the numbers to determine if the cost of ownership offsets headcount. what your dollar goes to isn’t part of that formula. only what your dollar gets you.
> But on top of all that you probably need to hire people to implement and maintain a solution utilizing it for your organization.
that is also a given. you would need at least as many people to implement analytics on top of the homebrew data warehouse, in addition to headcount to run the warehouse itself.
you seem to want to make this out to be vastly different spend amounts. it can be. sometimes it is, sometimes it is not, and the direction can vary.
We aren't talking about a homebrew data warehouse though, we are talking about open source software. Designing the schema and/or data flows on top of the warehouse is needed regardless of whether you use open source or Snowflake.
if it isn’t already running, yes, we are. open source is rarely if ever “off the shelf.”
if you’re suggesting vendor-hosted open source, that’s a consideration in vendor selection, and as much as it may seem obvious to suggest alternatives now, it wasn’t when they didn’t exist.
and yes, you correctly gathered the point on schemas and the like being the same everywhere.
> With Snowflake you are paying for not only the development of the product, the hosting of it, the engineers to run it, but also the sales, marketing, and management behind it.
and you can run the numbers to determine if the cost of ownership offsets headcount. what your dollar goes to isn’t part of that formula. only what your dollar gets you.
> But on top of all that you probably need to hire people to implement and maintain a solution utilizing it for your organization.
that is also a given. you would need at least as many people to implement analytics on top of the homebrew data warehouse, in addition to headcount to run the warehouse itself.
you seem to want to make this out to be vastly different spend amounts. it can be. sometimes it is, sometimes it is not, and the direction can vary.