Snowflake to buy Crunchy Data for $250M
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Re: Snowflake to buy Crunchy Data for $250M
#2Bummer that all the postgres serverless providers are getting acquired. First Neon, now this. Hope the innovation and competitive pricing continues!
Re: Snowflake to buy Crunchy Data for $250M
#3Re: Snowflake to buy Crunchy Data for $250M
#4> 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
#5Congrats to the Crunchy Data team! Thanks for making containerized postgres so easy for years and years. Wish you all the best!
Re: Snowflake to buy Crunchy Data for $250M
#6> 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
#7Snowflake is becoming the Juicero of data.
Re: Snowflake to buy Crunchy Data for $250M
#8Snowflake 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.
Re: Snowflake to buy Crunchy Data for $250M
#9github repo : https://github.com/crunchydata