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Zaharia: Scaling down from bulk ingestion to serving is easier than scaling up
“It turned out that, you know, it's easier to go from that bod thing that's really good at the scale and ingesting and super low cost and create versions in it that have the speed and features of the, you know, super easy to use, like smaller data for business …”
Goyal: Observability Giants Built Custom Databases Because Packaged DBs Ignored Variant Types
“My conclusion is that this is a very real problem for a very small number of companies, and that is why Datadog, Splunk, Honeycomb, et cetera, built their own database technology, which is, in some ways, it's sad because all of the technology is a remix of pie…”
Goyal: Snowflake's VARIANT is the best semi-structured data implementation
“It is, without any question, at least in my experience, the best implementation of semi-structured data and sort of solves the problem of storing it very, very efficiently and querying it efficiently, almost as efficiently as if you specified the schema exactl…”
Goyal: Observability products would ideally run on Snowflake's VARIANT type
“And I think every observability product in some sort of platonic ideal would be built on top of Snowflake's variant implementation. And have better performance. It would be cheaper. You know, the customer experience would be better. But, you know, alas, it's j…”
Catanzaro: Built-In Catalog Features in Snowflake and dbt Were Good Enough
“Many of these products offered kind of like data cataloging capabilities as a feature. And I think for humans, that was good enough. Like the data catalog that you had available in Snowflake was good enough. The data cataloging capabilities available in dbt, l…”
Goyal: DuckDB struct type lacks true dynamic variant schema flexibility
“DuckDB has a struct type, which is dynamically constructed, but it has all the downsides of traditional structured data types, right? So it's just not Like, for example, if you create, if you infer a bunch of rows with the struct type, and then you present the…”
Snowflake Proved Layer-Two Clouds Can Win on Developer Experience
“And I think Snowflake, you know, to me won because like, I mean, in the end, like AWS makes all the money anyway, like, and like Snowflake just had the ability to like focus on like developer experience or like, you know, or user experience. And to me, like re…”