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I genuinely think DeWitt clause is good for the users (bad for researchers). Without it, especially in the context of cooperate competitions, the company with the most marketing po…

I disagree. It makes sense for Snowflake to response to what-they-think-is an unreasonably bad result published by Databricks. And they focused more on Snowflake’s result and only …

Exactly. That’s why I think public benchmark war is just a waste of time. There will ALWAYS be some subtle differences between the two platforms that results will never be apple to…

Snowflake claims the snowflake result from Databricks was not audited. It’s not that Databricks numbers were artificially good but rather Snowflake’s number was unreasonably bad.

I don’t think they are saying benchmark is not important but rather public benchmark war being a distraction.

It’s probably just me but the distinction between datalake and data warehouse seems like splitting hairs. Unstructured data can always be stored on structure databases. What’s the …

Whose result can be trusted is beside the point - I actually believe both experiments were likely conducted in good faith but with incomplete context. But that’s beside the point. …

Personally I think it’s a great response and very well written. I didn’t jump on the congrats-Databricks wagon when the result first came out because of the weird front page compar…

People have different skill sets. I bet there are engineers out there feeling more comfortable building a mobile app than a webapp.

To understand how they are different, you need to know Default Initialization, Direct List Initialization, Aggregate Initialization, Default Member Initialization, List Initializat…

I agree that positive vs. negative is beside the point. But deadlock and positive feedback loop are different things though.

It sounds more like deadlock than a positive feedback loop (also it’s weird that he calls it negative feedback loop).

Proud to be a Bostonian!

I wrote a post explaining FDB as well, which got retweeted by @FoundationDB https://mobile.twitter.com/aptxk1d/status/141786976657708237... My post focuses on the correctness, proo…

It does, which one can argue it’s an implementation detail. The differences I mentioned above eg sharding, transaction boundary, secondary indices, etc. should be generally applica…

How a graph DB index the data to support this query?

This is a great topic. I have been working on TAO for many years. I am not very familiar with other graph databases; I assume fundamentally they are more or less the same. Here are…

Marketing pitch doesn’t have to make sense to be successful. Andy is a marketing genius.