The Ledger

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Assertion Contradicted
Elsamadisi: Redshift, Snowflake, and BigQuery perform identically on long tables
“The speed improvement on Redshift and versus Snowflake versus BigQuery becomes interchangeable. Because what they handle is for those edge cases, we have like a bunch of, like Snowflake is really good at a bunch of small tables everywhere trying to load a memo…”
Ahmed Elsamadisi Nov 13, 2019 ▶ 18:26 How to Answer Data Questions Without Being Miserable // Ahmed Elsamadisi, Narrator (Data Driven NYC)
Assertion Supported
Muglia: Dynamic compute scaling is impossible with Amazon Redshift
“In fact, it's possible to change the size dynamically on the fly based on the kinds of queries you're running. And none of that is possible with a traditional data warehouse running on premises or even a traditional data warehouse like Redshift running within,…”
Bob Muglia Apr 20, 2015 ▶ 7:04 Bob Muglia, Snowflake // Navigating The Cloud (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
Assertion Contradicted
Muglia: Snowflake delivers better price performance than Amazon Redshift
“We were even actually found ourselves to be more price performance Than other cloud solutions like Redshift.”
Bob Muglia Apr 20, 2015 ▶ 16:32 Bob Muglia, Snowflake // Navigating The Cloud (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
Assertion Supported
Fraser: Amazon Redshift was the first cheap, fast data warehouse
“Redshift was incredibly important because it was, it came out in 2013. It was in the AWS console. It wasn't the first really good fast data warehouse, but it was the first one that was cheap.”
George Fraser Sep 18, 2020 ▶ 5:09 Fireside Chat: George Fraser (Founder & CEO, Fivetran) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
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