Arjun Narayan: Snowflake succeeded by wrapping cloud architecture in familiar SQL
Arjun Narayan · Fireside Chat: Arjun Narayan (Founder & CEO, Materialize) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark) · Mar 15, 2021 · at 11:20
Arjun Narayan, CEO of Materialize, highlights Snowflake as a case study of how database tools win mainstream adoption by maintaining backwards compatibility with SQL.
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“Snowflake is a fantastic example of, under the hood, they, you know, they have a very modern microservice architecture, but it's all sort of very neatly wrapped up with a bow on top, such that it looks like a SQL database, and that's much, much more attractive to folks who are, who already have, you know, Decades of SQL queries and analytics queries that, you know, fundamentally needs to be ported over and run in this cloud native fashion but without throwing it all out.”
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