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by hilariously 70 days ago
It's a database, but you could store basically any OLAP type things there, all your stuff for aggregate customer data for instance.
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Sure, but some databases are sold/bought more by brand recognition and for the type of data rather than actual technical capabilities. Don't ask me why, just very familiar with people making those sort of choices.
Most I would say, but with snowflake it can be anything from some exec's fever dream to them actually paying 10x what they should and accomplishing said fever dream; I've worked on the entire spectrum when it comes to Snowflake.