[FridgeSeal]

That’s a wildly interesting idea.

It open up another market too: compatible, scalable storage. Sell shovels in a gold-rush, and what better shovel than the substrate infrastructure that those bidding query engines would probably depend on.

[yodon]

If the queries can be executed by any provider, you are talking about a commodity product.

The business model of selling a commodity is wildly unlike the business model tech is in today.

[FridgeSeal]

The query execution might be commodity, but the purchasers will still need to store their data somewhere, and this somewhere will need to be able to service the bandwidth and requirements of the query execution providers.