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Snowflake to buy Crunchy Data for $250M

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Re: Snowflake to buy Crunchy Data for $250M

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> Part of the reason Snowflake and Databricks are interested in database companies is because PostgreSQL can serve as the underlying database for customers to create AI agents with data they store in the companies’ respective platforms.

I don't understand this part. What does PostgreSQL offer here that these vendors believe they can't add to their existing platform? Is it the ecosystem?

Re: Snowflake to buy Crunchy Data for $250M

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> Part of the reason Snowflake and Databricks are interested in database companies is because PostgreSQL can serve as the underlying database for customers to create AI agents with data they store in the companies’ respective platforms. I don't understand this part. What does PostgreSQL offer here that these vendors believe they can't add to their existing platform? Is it the ecosystem?

Low-latency and cheap retrieval for RAG.

Re: Snowflake to buy Crunchy Data for $250M

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Snowflake is becoming the Juicero of data.

As a DE, I have an unpopular disdain of Snowflake because it trivalize a lot of stuffs. I think I'm going to switch to OLTP given the chance.

Can you go into more depth on this?
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