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by spullara 1038 days ago
These reasons are why Snowflake is building hybrid tables (under the Unistore umbrella). Those tables keep recent data in an operational store and historical data in their typical data warehouse storage systems. Best of both worlds. Still in private preview but definitely the answer to how you build applications that need both without using multiple databases and syncing.

https://www.snowflake.com/guides/htap-hybrid-transactional-a...
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datavirtue 1038 days ago
Conveniently leave out the issue of cost. Snowflake is piling on features that encourage more compute. Customers abuse the system and they (Snowflake) respond by helping cement them into continuing the abuse (spending more) by developing features to make bad habits and horrible engineering decisions look like something they should be doing. Typical.
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disgruntledphd2 1038 days ago
Snowflake are the Oracle of the cloud.
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ed_elliott_asc 1038 days ago
Oh come on snowflake isn’t cheap but there are none of the license auditing nonsense.

(Also aren’t oracle the oracle of the cloud?)

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tcoff91 1038 days ago
Oracle is so far beyond anyone other major player in crookedness that it's not even funny.

Oh, you happened to run your oracle database in a VM and got audited? They'll try to shake you down to pay for however many oracle licenses for every other box you are running hypervisors on, because they claim that you could have transferred the database to any of those other boxes. So if you have a datacenter with 1000 boxes running VMWare, and you ran Oracle on one of them, they try to shake you down for paying for not buying 1000 licenses. Then they say but if you just buy a bunch of cloud credits, we can make your 1000x license violation go away.

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gabereiser 1038 days ago
Or buy our database server appliance to install in the racks next to your VMWare cluster for millions.
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tcoff91 1037 days ago
Do they seriously charge in the millions for a server to run a database? A single box? Fucking oracle man.
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disgruntledphd2 1037 days ago
What I mean by that is that SF have a technically superior product, were first to identify the market and scaled with it, and their pricing model is designed to get you spending more.

People loved Oracle's technology back in the day (or so I understand it, I was like 2 when they released the first one).

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