We’re thrilled to announce the availability of Rockset’s new connector with Snowflake, which can significantly enhance value efficiencies for customers building comprehensive data architectures. The two programs harmonize seamlessly, with Snowflake optimized to handle enormous datasets and scale effortlessly to support tens of thousands of concurrent queries from customers. Utilizing Snowflake and Rockset together enables seamless integration of batch and real-time analytics capabilities, satisfying the diverse needs of modern businesses, including business intelligence and reporting, machine learning model creation and deployment, and providing customer-facing insights directly to end-users.
What’s Wanted for Actual-Time Analytics?
These real-time, user-facing purposes involve leveraging or in-app analytics. To enhance customer experience and revenue potential for online shoppers at an e-commerce retailer, it’s essential to leverage real-time data analytics throughout the purchasing process, allowing for personalized interactions and optimal conversions.
To combine data for informational purposes, it is often essential to integrate real-time streams, typically sourced from Apache Kafka, Amazon Kinesis, or change data capture (CDC) feeds from operational databases, with historical data stored in a data warehousing solution. Within a personalized instance, historical data can comprise demographic facts and purchasing history, whereas real-time streaming data may reflect customer behavior in the present moment, such as engagement with the website, ads, location, or immediate purchases. As the demand for real-time functionality escalates, numerous scenarios will arise where organizations must ingest live data feeds, merge them with historical context, and deliver sub-second analytics to fuel their data-driven applications.
The Snowflake + Snowpipe Choice
By leveraging Snowflake’s robust infrastructure alongside its Snowpipe ingestion service, researchers can efficiently gather and analyze diverse data streams and historical records in a unified manner. By integrating touchdown each streaming and historic information into a unified platform, users can access a comprehensive library of data in a single location, streamlining their workflow and enhancing overall productivity. Despite its benefits, this feature is not without limitations, particularly when query performance and data processing speed are crucial considerations, as highlighted below.
While Snowflake has revolutionized the ecosystem, empowering enterprises to capitalize on cloud economies, its core functionality is centered around periodic, large-scale data processing and aggregation of historical information units, often driven by analysts conducting business intelligence studies or data scientists training machine learning models? In scenarios demanding sub-second latency and concurrent query volumes reaching hundreds, Snowflake’s performance may fall short, making it too slow or expensive to handle such high-volume workloads in real-time. To meet the demands of concurrent requests, Snowflake may need to scale its infrastructure by provisioning additional warehouses. However, this approach will likely come with an escalating cost as data volume and query load increase.
Batch processing can be optimized for snowflakes. The system stores data in fixed-size blocks that remain unchanged once written, making it optimize for batch writes rather than streaming inputs. New information may take several hours or tens of minutes to become queryable within Snowflake, potentially occurring before its query time. Snowflake’s Snowpipe ingestion service was introduced as a real-time data integration tool, enabling sub-minute latency. While this approach alleviates concerns about information staleness to a degree, it still falls short of providing adequate support for real-time applications where decisions must be made on data mere moments old? Moreover, attempting to minimize latency in a system designed for batch processing can result in an excessive consumption of resources, rendering Snowflake’s real-time analytics capabilities prohibitively expensive in this configuration?
To achieve real-time analytics effectively, it is often necessary to meet specific latency requirements for questions and information, which may not be feasible or economical to accomplish using a traditional batch-oriented data warehousing approach like Snowflake with Snowpipe.
Rockset boosts Snowflake’s real-time analytics capabilities by leveraging its scalable architecture and proprietary query engine.
This innovative platform offers an additional option for users to gain access to streaming data and historic archives, thereby enabling real-time analytics capabilities.
This architecture employs Rockset as the serving layer for our appliance, in conjunction with a sink for processing streaming data, which can originate from Kafka as one possible source. Historical data can be stored in Snowflake and seamlessly integrated with Rockset for analysis purposes, leveraging the robust connector available.
The strategy’s primary advantage lies in its integration with two premier data platforms: Rockset, which excels at real-time analytics, and Snowflake, optimized for batch processing. Snowflake, renowned for its exceptional performance in processing large datasets, has been specifically optimized for batch analytics on massive data volumes and bulk loads. Rockset, distinct from others, is a real-time analytics platform designed to harness the power of on-demand insights from real-time information. Rockset’s proprietary technology optimises the organisation of information within a trademarked framework, specifically designed to support rapid processing of real-time data and efficient execution of low-latency analytical inquiries. Rockset’s ingest rollups empower builders to seamlessly pre-aggregate real-time data using SQL, eliminating the need for complex, time-consuming real-time data pipeline architectures. Because of this, the impact is multiplied by a factor of 10 to 100. To gain insight into how Rockset’s architecture enables rapid and computationally efficient analytics on real-time data, explore its features further.
What if we could deliver hyper-personalized experiences to our customers in real-time, leveraging their buying habits and preferences? To achieve this, we’re combining Rockset’s event-driven architecture with Snowflake’s cloud-based data warehousing capabilities. By integrating these technologies, we can process high-volume transactional data and surface hidden insights that inform our buyer personalization strategies. This fusion enables us to create tailored interactions that mirror each customer’s unique buying journey?
One notable example of a company leveraging the combination of Rockset and Snowflake for real-time analytics is a leading online retailer specializing in subscription-based multivitamin sales, which enables customers to purchase these products online. To support ad-hoc evaluations, periodic reporting, and machine learning model development, the team initially utilized a Snowflake database, recognizing its limitations in meeting the location’s sub-second latency requirements at scale. They then considered Rockset as a potential velocity layer. With seamless integration between Rockset and Snowflake, Ritual successfully enabled real-time data access and processing within a week, paving the way for tailored offerings to customers at lightning-fast speeds.
Connecting Snowflake to Rockset
Data ingestion from Snowflake into Rockset is a seamless process. To seamlessly integrate Rockset with Snowflake, simply provide your Snowflake credentials and configure AWS IAM access controls to ensure secure authentication. The data from the Snowflake desk is likely to be seamlessly integrated into a Rockset collection. That’s it!
Rockset’s cloud-native architecture is fully disaggregated, enabling each component to scale independently as needed. By leveraging Snowflake’s vast data repository, Rockset enables seamless ingestion of terabytes’ worth of knowledge within mere minutes, empowering users to establish a live information pipeline between these two systems. With its native integrations with AWS and Amazon, Rockset’s Snowflake connector enables customers to seamlessly link historical data stored in Snowflake with real-time insights from streaming sources, unlocking new possibilities for analytics and decision-making.
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