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Re:Snowflake Computing raises $263M for its data warehouse by Eridrus on Monday January 29, 2018 @10:53AM (#16258163)
Snowflake isn't just reselling storage and compute though, they're building some pretty impressive software.

One of the standout features when I used them a few years ago was their ability to do analytic queries on JSON columns in huge databases. Maybe Postgres is up to the task on it's own now, but MongoDB at the time was not.

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Re:Snowflake Computing raises $263M for its data warehouse by tampajohn on Monday January 29, 2018 @11:06AM (#16258240)
Yeah, we moved from Mongo -> Postgres -> Snowflake (skipped redis due to connection limits). Really great performance and support from various ETL & Reporting tools. Glad to see them succeed.
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