Treasure Data is great for budding data teams.
July 15, 2019

Treasure Data is great for budding data teams.

Darrin Lim | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with Treasure Data

Treasure Data is used as our production data warehouse. We also use Redshift, but are increasingly moving away from that - our cleansed, production datasets primarily exist within Treasure Data.
Treasure Data provides transparent access to data for auditors, which has been a huge business problem it's addressed. We can present specific schemas to auditors to monitor, and track all of their queries easily.

Pros

  • Excellent console interface.
  • Incredibly fast processing, and simple ability to shift between Hive and Spark.
  • Simple workflows - easy to understand and use.

Cons

  • Workflows could be more expansive - Python capability, for example.
  • Data visualization would be incredibly powerful.
  • Being able to merge directly to datasets outside of TD would be powerful.
  • Treasure Data has provided the value of a full data engineer for half the cost.
  • Treasure Data has improved our analysts capabilities by a multiple of two.
  • Treasure Data has provided ease of data access.
  • As a tool for providing greater transparency.
  • As a data processing engine - we perform much of our back end processing for data applications in Treasure Data.
  • As an audit tool - TD query logs are very useful for this.
Redshift does not have a simple web console interface for us to use. However, one area where Redshift shines and Treasure Data does not is in its pricing model. Auto-scaling is a great feature in Redshift, whereas the Presto-hours business model can be somewhat limiting at times. On the flip side, auto-scaling can ramp up costs if an unsophisticated user writes a bad query. So there are tradeoffs to both.
Treasure Data is well suited to providing multiple users with a console interface that abstracts away messy connection details. Not having to worry about how to connect to Treasure Data has been a lifesaver - it's a major point that separates it from Redshift, especially for less technical users. Furthermore, it removes the need to install any excess software. It's a great way to have a data warehouse stood up quickly that's easy to access.

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