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Re:Ask HN: What Is the Value of CockroachDB? by diehunde on Thursday June 25, 2020 @12:20AM (#23636870)
In case of OLAP queries is performance[1] which is not surprising since it's an OLTP database AFAIK.

I don't know what he means by "data management"

[1]https://www.cockroachlabs.com/docs/stable/frequently-asked-q...

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Re:Ask HN: What Is the Value of CockroachDB? by lokiju on Thursday June 25, 2020 @12:14PM (#23642321)
What I mean is - and I get that these are somewhat different technologies - snowflake offers a more seemingly comprehensive platform for data by aggregating it and focusing the product on that aggregation for future use.

Compared to Cockroach DB which seems like a niche SQL replacement?

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