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Snowflake to Databricks Quickstart

Benefits
- Use this QuickStart to compare costs and performance of Snowflake to Databricks.
- Migrate your Snowflake data pipelines to Databricks, or implement a hybrid approach, to maximize ROI and TCO.
Duration:
4 weeks (20 days)
Starting at:
$48,000
QuickStart Overview

Quickstart timeline
Week 1
Databricks deployment
- Azure or AWS – Scripted w/ Terraform
- Non-production subscription, VPC
Blueprint Lakehouse Optimizer
- Implemented in your cloud environment
- Cloud billing-reader privileges required
Snowflake analysis
- Extract account_usage statistics
- Assess select candidates for migration
Week 2-3
Lakehouse workshops/hands-on
- Hands on with sample data in your environment
- Databricks Unity Catalog, sec, management workshop
- Target 2, half day sessions. Limited to 10.
Snowflake migration
- Target medium complexity transform
- Leverage existing integration platform (e.g. Matillion) or deploy from Databricks Partner Connect.
- Limited to 100GBs of data
Week 4
Comparison analysis
- Leverage Lakehouse Optimizer
- Compare runtimes & costs
- Forecast impacts of similar workload migrations
Roadmap with Blueprint
- Plan workload migrations
- Lakehouse migration strategy
- Explore service offerings from Blueprint
Migrate workloads from Redshift to Databricks
Compare costs and performance with the Lakehouse Optimizer
Plan a full migration with Blueprint
QuickStart Accelerators
Conversion Engine
Test out Databricks with
your data in Snowflake