ClickHouse sees demand to migrate workloads off Snowflake, BigQuery, and Redshift
Aaron Katz · How ClickHouse powers Netflix, Uber and Spotify’s Analytics | Aaron Katz, CEO of ClickHouse · Jun 13, 2024 · at 25:48
Aaron Katz, CEO of ClickHouse, addresses migration demand away from traditional cloud data warehouses.
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“In the cloud data warehouse market, to answer your question specifically around Snowflake, we do see demand for customers to migrate off of technologies like BigQuery and Redshift, and Snowflake either for Cost or performance or both.”
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