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by hodgesrm
1402 days ago
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> Wow their statement about not participating in benchmarking wars is alarming. I found the Snowflake statement pretty reasonable. [0] Vendor benchmarks are largely propaganda. What actually counts is performance on real-world workloads, starting with your own. Plus good bencharks are costly to do well. If vendors are going to invest in load testing, it's way better to do it as part of the QA process, which directly benefits users. The other thing for vendors to do is to drop DeWitt clauses so others can run benchmarks and share the results. Snowflake announced this in the statement and also changed their acceptable use policy accordingly. [1] [0] https://www.snowflake.com/blog/industry-benchmarks-and-compe... [1] https://www.snowflake.com/legal/acceptable-use-policy/ Disclaimer: My company runs a cloud service for ClickHouse that competes against Snowflake. |
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