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Alooma vs Snowflake vs Stitch: What are the differences?
## Key Differences Between Alooma, Snowflake, and Stitch
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1. **Data Integration**: Alooma is a data integration platform that focuses on real-time data streaming, while Snowflake and Stitch are more focused on data warehousing and ETL processes.
2. **Database Support**: Snowflake is a cloud-based data warehouse that works with various databases like Amazon Redshift, Google BigQuery, and more, while Alooma and Stitch are integration platforms that support numerous data sources and databases.
3. **ETL Capabilities**: Stitch is an ETL tool specifically designed for extracting, transforming, and loading data into a data warehouse, whereas Alooma provides more extensive data integration capabilities beyond just ETL.
4. **Structure**: Snowflake is a data warehousing solution with built-in support for semi-structured data like JSON, XML, Avro, and Parquet, which sets it apart from Alooma and Stitch that primarily focus on structured data.
5. **Pricing Model**: Alooma and Stitch offer different pricing models based on the number of data sources and the volume of data processed, while Snowflake's pricing is based on storage and compute usage within the data warehouse.
6. **Integration Flexibility**: Alooma offers a wide range of pre-built integrations for commonly used data sources, while Stitch relies more on user-defined integrations and APIs to connect to various systems, making it more flexible in terms of integration options.
In Summary, the key differences between Alooma, Snowflake, and Stitch lie in data integration focus, database support, ETL capabilities, handling of semi-structured data, pricing models, and integration flexibility.
Cloud Data-warehouse is the centerpiece of modern Data platform. The choice of the most suitable solution is therefore fundamental.
Our benchmark was conducted over BigQuery and Snowflake. These solutions seem to match our goals but they have very different approaches.
BigQuery is notably the only 100% serverless cloud data-warehouse, which requires absolutely NO maintenance: no re-clustering, no compression, no index optimization, no storage management, no performance management. Snowflake requires to set up (paid) reclustering processes, to manage the performance allocated to each profile, etc. We can also mention Redshift, which we have eliminated because this technology requires even more ops operation.
BigQuery can therefore be set up with almost zero cost of human resources. Its on-demand pricing is particularly adapted to small workloads. 0 cost when the solution is not used, only pay for the query you're running. But quickly the use of slots (with monthly or per-minute commitment) will drastically reduce the cost of use. We've reduced by 10 the cost of our nightly batches by using flex slots.
Finally, a major advantage of BigQuery is its almost perfect integration with Google Cloud Platform services: Cloud functions, Dataflow, Data Studio, etc.
BigQuery is still evolving very quickly. The next milestone, BigQuery Omni, will allow to run queries over data stored in an external Cloud platform (Amazon S3 for example). It will be a major breakthrough in the history of cloud data-warehouses. Omni will compensate a weakness of BigQuery: transferring data in near real time from S3 to BQ is not easy today. It was even simpler to implement via Snowflake's Snowpipe solution.
We also plan to use the Machine Learning features built into BigQuery to accelerate our deployment of Data-Science-based projects. An opportunity only offered by the BigQuery solution
Pros of Alooma
Pros of Snowflake
- Public and Private Data Sharing7
- Multicloud4
- Good Performance4
- User Friendly4
- Great Documentation3
- Serverless2
- Economical1
- Usage based billing1
- Innovative1
Pros of Stitch
- 3 minutes to set up8
- Super simple, great support4
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