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blackbear_
on Sept 30, 2020
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Why is Snowflake so Valuable?
Am I wrong if I say that they are so valuable (in monetary terms) just because they are the only (or one of the few) non-free database management systems (or whatever they are)?
johncolanduoni
on Sept 30, 2020
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Not really, they’re largely targeting the same kind of use cases as redshift and bigquery.
mr_toad
on Sept 30, 2020
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I ask people if they’ve ever heard of Redshift and BigQuery, and most, even many in IT haven’t.
But
everyone
has heard of Snowflake.
johncolanduoni
on Oct 1, 2020
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Sure, I’m not arguing that they’re equally good or equally good at marketing. But they’re far from the only cloud OLAP database.
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