Snowboard looks great. Congrats on the launch! At my work we currently use this open source tool https://www.amundsen.io/amundsen/ mostly to search schemas and tables. Curious to see the differences with Snowboard.
To give an opinionated position regarding Amundsen:
Amundsen is a great open source project with many cool ideas. However, we found that the experience on Snowflake was quite shallow and much more insights and context on data assets are possible. E.g. data profiles, lineage or usage information are not readily available in Amundsen. You can customize and extend Amundsen to do more, but most data teams should build and innovate in other areas closer to the business. ;) Most companies use Snowflake over the Apache Spark open source stack exactly because of that.
If you are interested to learn more, please reach out: rick at snowboard.software
zurfer|4 years ago
To give an opinionated position regarding Amundsen:
Amundsen is a great open source project with many cool ideas. However, we found that the experience on Snowflake was quite shallow and much more insights and context on data assets are possible. E.g. data profiles, lineage or usage information are not readily available in Amundsen. You can customize and extend Amundsen to do more, but most data teams should build and innovate in other areas closer to the business. ;) Most companies use Snowflake over the Apache Spark open source stack exactly because of that.
If you are interested to learn more, please reach out: rick at snowboard.software