[willvarfar]

Snowflake and big query are cloud solutions. Some companies have a need for self hosted databases etc.

And often having a homogenous database stack is a plus. If your production systems are all MySQL, then trying to get away with using MySQL for analytics too is a smart move etc.

I’ve seen so many tiddly data warehouses. Most companies don’t need web scale, and they overbuild and over complicate when they could be running on a simpler homogenous stack etc.