The question is why. It doesn't seem to have anything to offer in performance or price/performance vs. even mediocre products such as Redshift. Am I missing something?
Have you used both? I used to use Snowflake at a former company. Snowflake has top class support for semi-structured data, for example. I found it really easy to use and highly flexible/featured compared to Redshift.
No, I haven't. I mainly work with Vertica and did some troubleshooting on a Redshift cluster. I've mainly read comparisons of performance and price/perf vs. those platforms.
Reading through their docs their semi-structured data support is similar to Vertica's flex tables. It's a handy feature, but not critical IME.
This was on the Berkeley AMPLab benchmark, and the link I followed mentions Snowflake -- there's apparently a bit of winking and nodding going on here about the "unnamed" data platform.
Basic query latency was also considerably longer for SF.
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"The unnamed data cloud platform consistently had the highest price-performance4, across a range of 11.5x to 13.1x".
https://www.vertica.com/resource/cloud-database-performance-...
This was on the Berkeley AMPLab benchmark, and the link I followed mentions Snowflake -- there's apparently a bit of winking and nodding going on here about the "unnamed" data platform.
Basic query latency was also considerably longer for SF.