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Assertion Not checkable as stated
Muglia: Many early Snowflake customers converted directly off Amazon Redshift
“Virtually all of our customers have looked at Redshift. And quite a few of our customers are converted off of it, because we're very fundamentally different than they are.”
Opinion
Amazon Redshift has fallen behind in next-generation cloud data warehousing
“Because the clouds themselves, you look at Redshift in the buyer's mind has really fallen behind in the next generation cloud data warehouse.”
Assertion Supported
Freedman: Amazon Redshift is a fork of PostgreSQL 8
“Amazon Redshift is actually a fork of Postgres eight.”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Handy: Amazon Redshift's launch sparked a rewrite of data stack products
“Those set of technologies have really been completely rebuilt. I think over the past seven years, really, it was like the introduction of Amazon redshift with In, in, in, that sparked kind of a rewrite of all of the products in that space.”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Muglia: Snowflake competes with only three AWS services, primarily Redshift
“We do compete with Redshift. I think Amazon has a 150 different services in their portfolio. We compete with maybe Three, depending on whether you want to include Athena and Spectrum in that.”
Disclosure
Moving from Hive to Amazon Redshift was a game changer for Pinterest
“At Pinterest we use Redshift. We're big users of Amazon's Redshift product. That's been a pretty substantial game changer for us moving away from Hive.”
Assertion Partly supported
Handy: Amazon Redshift introduced affordable $160-per-month OLAP databases
“And so Amazon Redshift in, for the first time released an OLAP database, a database designed for large scale query processing that you could purchase for 160 dollars a month.”