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I think it's important to understand how this kind of scenario comes up. It's unusual to want to move a whole PB at one time, and yeah in that case these other costs would come up.…

It's very relevant if you ever want to do serious ML or anything other than SQL. Of course Snowflake wants you to think that you never need another platform. Every customer knows t…

This is exactly what FAANGs do with their data platforms. There are literally hundreds of groups within these companies with very strict data isolation requirements between them. P…

It is not a "small" cost. The cost is proportional to the size of the data exported. For all intents and purposes, large amounts of data are locked into Snowflake. Is it theoretica…

Do you have to pay to export data out of Snowflake? Yes. They have a nice guide on how to spend money doing it ( https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/data-unload-overvie ...). …

Spark has always been able to handle way larger scale than any DW.

The 'open' here refers to the data. Delta lake can be read/written by multiple open source engines, not just Spark. Not to mention, if you want you can use Databricks with Parquet,…

If you want Python, ML and SQL to be easily usable together on the same data nothing can touch Databricks.

The thing is even that response doesn't show them to be better. As someone pointed out, they're comparing their cheapest offering with Databricks' most expensive one and saying the…