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I think DuckDB is great but I don't think it is necessarily playing the same game as Snowflake. A lot of people want the serverless option and DuckDB is not that.
DuckDB on a lambda/serverless python function wrapper or in WASM (for client-side workloads) is as stateless and serverless as you can get. In that case BigQuery is more managed than both, PAYG for analytical queries without thinking about compute nor clusters whatsoever.
First is their long pursuit of HTAP and the failures around unistore.
Snowflake wanted to get into transactional workloads for a long time and for good reasons.
I wonder what will happen to Unistore after this acquisition.
The other interesting part is ETL/ELT, CDC and the whole business of replicating transactional databases into OLAP.
What crunchy built with duckdb and iceberg is a potential solution to this problem. A problem that has been painful to solve for a long long time.
Being able to replicate your transactional database into your data lake or data warehouse without having to deal with Debezium and all the rest of the stuff, is going to make many data teams happy.
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I think DuckDB is great but I don't think it is necessarily playing the same game as Snowflake. A lot of people want the serverless option and DuckDB is not that.
DuckDB on a lambda/serverless python function wrapper or in WASM (for client-side workloads) is as stateless and serverless as you can get. In that case BigQuery is more managed than both, PAYG for analytical queries without thinking about compute nor clusters whatsoever.
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> literally name themselves as "Postgresql Data Warehouse" but correct me if I'm wrong That's not their primary product. Crunchy Postgres is their primary offering and they recently announced Crunchy Data Warehouse.
I thought Crunchy Data Warehouse was their main product, looking at most of their marketing posts. What's the advantage of using their managed PostgreSQL offering on the cloud, compared to native offerings such as AWS RDS and GCP Cloud SQL?
I had them mixed up with Citus and was confused since I thought they already belonged to MS!
I think $250M is fairly low. Must be a good deal for snowflake.
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I thought Crunchy Data Warehouse was their main product, looking at most of their marketing posts. What's the advantage of using their managed PostgreSQL offering on the cloud, compared to native offerings such as AWS RDS and GCP Cloud SQL?
1) built using an open source kubernetes operator, as I understand 2) Crunchy provides true superuser access and access to physical backups – that's huge
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1) built using an open source kubernetes operator, as I understand 2) Crunchy provides true superuser access and access to physical backups – that's huge
Why is that huge out of interest?