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Re:Databricks is an RDBMS by georgewfraser on Monday February 01, 2021 @09:01PM (#25996670)
If Teradata is faster for workload X or Y, it isn’t because of a shared nothing architecture. Databricks and Snowflake both cache the working set on local disks of the worker nodes, so in practice they are shared nothing systems from a performance perspective.
Re:Databricks is an RDBMS by snidane on Tuesday February 02, 2021 @02:40AM (#25998278)
Only after using the data beforehand it gets cached or by actively pushing it into cache. Otherwise everything sits in cold storage far away.

And having control over the cache sucks as hell. You can't pin down a table to reside in compute node disk cache when you know it will be used often.