[1290cc]

Pretty cool tech although I feel they may have missed the moment as AWS, Azure and GCP are becoming hypercompetitive to solve all things related to data/storage. Azure has been churning out major updates to its services and clearly taking inspiration from companies like Snowflake. AWS I think hesitated to compete with Snowflake as they were running on AWS anyway - win/win for them.

Snowflake had incredible timing as they hit the market just before CFO's and non-tech business leaders realized the cost and talent needed to pull off a datalake successfully was more than they'd like. Those that were sick of the management jumped to Snowflake fast and AWS/Azure never really responded until recently.

Awesome to see all the innovative takes on solving these extremely technical problems! I love it!

[manigandham]

Google's data product suite seems to be the most advanced today with a completely no-ops approach and very solid primitives to work with.

Snowflake still doesn't an answer to streaming data (other than their fragile Kafka connector) and Azure Synapse still isn't publically available even months after their announcement.

AWS had a good headstart but they keep piling on more products and features that it's now a big mess and requires yet another tool (AWS Lake Formation) just to wire it all up.