Rockset vs. Snowflake
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Snowflake was designed for batch analytics, which is too slow and expensive for modern data apps. Rockset, in contrast, is built for real-time analytics: sub-second analytics on real-time data, without the need for additional ETL tools.

35%

Faster Query Performance

Rockset delivers sub-second query latency by automatically indexing all your data in multiple ways. Snowflake relies on time-consuming scans and has significant query planning overhead that adds 100ms of latency to each query.

65%

Lower Cost Per Query

For low latency, high concurrency data apps, cost per query matters more than cost per GB as your app scales. Rockset enables compute-efficient analytics by using indexes instead of scans.

80%

Lower Data Latency

Snowflake loads data in “micro-batches” via Snowpipe, making it available to users within minutes. Rockset has native, built-in data connectors that ensure data can be queried within 2 seconds of being generated.

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Compute Costs
Snowflake is storage optimized
Snowflake transforms data into its compressed, columnar format, which minimizes storage footprint. Querying data in this format requires computationally intensive scans, making it expensive to run sub-second queries on fresh data.
Query Speed
Snowflake does full scans
As a columnar database, Snowflake has to scan through large amounts of data to run each query. This process is slow, especially as data size or query complexity grows. Plus, each query requires at least 100ms of start-up time.
Data Latency
Snowflake data is stale
Snowflake loads data in batches, resulting in a delay before new data can be queried. Its immutable columnar format uses copy-on-write, which is compute intensive. Snowpipe supports data latency with a p95 of one minute, but is costly to run.
Data Model
Snowflake has poor support for semi-structured data
While there is “native” support for JSON, users must specify type to query fields inside an object. Performance is poor and advanced features are not supported.

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As you modernize your data stack to build more data applications, use Rockset to increase analytics speed and decrease costs.

Here are four reasons to use Rockset for real-time analytics:

Reduce cost to query by 65%

Increase query speeds by 135%

Reduce data latency to one second

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