HiFX

Unlocking the Power of Cloud Analytics with Migration to Snowflake

Business Requirement

A news portal’s data warehouse struggles to handle 54 million daily records, facing issues such as disk full errors, limited concurrency, and performance degradation. The current system requires frequent maintenance, forces data archiving after three months, and uses a pricing model based on cluster size rather than actual usage. These limitations impede the portal’s ability to process queries efficiently and cost-effectively, prompting the search for a more scalable and flexible data solution.

Our Solution

Our team of engineers at HiFX recognized the challenges that they were facing with their existing data warehouse provider and started their quest to find a more efficient solution. After  thorough analysis and extensive research, we arrived at the unanimous decision to go ahead with Snowflake (www.snowflake.com) .

Renowned for its advanced capabilities, Snowflake offered the client more advantages and flexibility over the previous data warehouse service provider. Firstly, Snowflake has a highly scalable and flexible architecture, allowing the client to scale their storage and compute resources independently effortlessly. This eliminated the need for manual planning and avoided disruptions in service availability. Moreover, Snowflake’s exceptional concurrency capabilities addressed our client’s need for efficient processing of concurrent queries. Its ability to handle large numbers of concurrent queries without sacrificing performance or response times made it the ideal choice for our client.

The HiFX team worked closely with the solution architect team from the client and oversaw the process to implement the Snowflake solution seamlessly. We migrated their data to Snowflake by cloning schema and tables, creating a dedicated Snowflake warehouse, and transferring data via S3. To ensure compatibility, changes were made in the code, while a parallel deployment was implemented to compare data during the migration process. The migration process ensured a smooth transition and enabled the client to benefit from Snowflake’s features and cost management.

Benefits

The decision to migrate data to Snowflake marked a pivotal moment in our client’s journey, enabling them to streamline their operations for greater efficiency and success. The Snowflake cloud warehouse solution was much faster compared to their older system. This superior speed has been highly beneficial for the client and has significantly reduced their month-end data analysis process, reducing the time required from four hours to just one hour.

While the previous provider’s pricing was based on the total number of clusters and the number of hours, Snowflake’s cost depends on the volume of data stored in the warehouse. This resulted in a staggering cost difference between the two platforms, with Snowflake delivering a cost reduction of 50% compared to the previous data warehouse solution. Not only does Snowflake perform better, but it costs significantly less than the client’s previous system. In essence, HiFX was able to help the client to overcome their challenges by offering this solution, completing the migration of the client’s data to a better and more cost-effective system.

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