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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…”
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,…”
Marking up storage accounts for roughly 11% of Snowflake's revenue
“It's about 11% of Snowflake's revenue is marking up storage.”
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.”
Borgman: Databricks and Snowflake operate strictly as cloud-only data platforms
“Databricks and Snowflake are cloud only, so if you happen to have data on-prem we're pretty much your only bet, and you know, it just so happens that that turns out to be most of the Fortune 500 almost the entirety of the financial Social services sector in pa…”
Ethereum's market cap was 7.6 times Snowflake's in Q1 2024
“The total market cap of Ethereum is 7.6 times snowflakes market cap.”
Snowflake S-1 filing entirely omitted the word developer
“If you read Snowflake's S-One, they never mentioned the word developer. That's all about the business analysts, The data scientists, et cetera, to help them kind of get, you know, insight into the data.”
Snowflake hosted full version of DeepSeek model on platform
“We actually hosted the full version of DeepSeek, not their small model.”
Moses cites 2022 revenues for BigQuery, Snowflake, and Databricks
“So you're seeing companies like BigQuery with 1.5 billion dollars in revenue, Snowflake with a billion dollars in revenue Databricks with eight hundred million in accelerating.”
Snowflake and Google BigQuery support exporting query results to Apache Arrow
“Snowflake exports supports exporting query results to arrow format. So it is big query.”
Muglia: Snowflake was named after Northstar California resort's logo
“Our founders liked skiing, and they were up at North Star. No, this is true. This is all true, right? Everybody's like, oh, it must be the Snowflake Ski Moe, or whatever. I mean, and there's a million different stories, but the actual story was there were skie…”
Muglia: Snowflake enables SQL joins between structured and semi-structured data
“In fact, we allow full relational operations against that semi-structured data. You can do a join between a column in a standard relation, in a standard structure table, and data that is hierarchically stored in a semi-structured format.”