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A comment on Snowflake’s response to Databricks’ TPC-DS post. Parent comment

Re:Snowflake’s response to Databricks’ TPC-DS post by kingkongv2 on Saturday November 13, 2021 @02:46AM (#29208187)
If people have never heard of Databricks, now is the time because a 100 billion company just started a war against them. Great marketing win Databricks.
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Re:Snowflake’s response to Databricks’ TPC-DS post by glogla on Saturday November 13, 2021 @11:01AM (#29210667)
Databricks is $28B valuation and 2800 employees, Snowflake is $109 valuation and 2500 employees.

They are both billion dolar companies, we're hardly talking David and Goliath here.

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Re:Snowflake’s response to Databricks’ TPC-DS post by alexott on Saturday November 13, 2021 @11:20AM (#29210860)
for DB that's old number - recent valuation is $38B
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Re:Snowflake’s response to Databricks’ TPC-DS post by geoduck14 on Saturday November 13, 2021 @09:14AM (#29209852)
To be fair, I've been equating Databricks for a month or so. Databricks is coming after Snowflake. Snowflake doesn't care. Snowflake has a pretty solid moat with:

EASY SQL, data sharing (they have a marketplace), simple scaling

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Re:Snowflake’s response to Databricks’ TPC-DS post by bpaneural on Saturday November 13, 2021 @09:35AM (#29210003)
You'll need to revisit this again. In the last two years Databricks has built a lead and a bigger moat. They're essentially nice chaps with a huge community backing them. And we all love their open source tools which essentially powers not only their big data platforms, but everyone else's too (AWS, GCP).
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Re:Snowflake’s response to Databricks’ TPC-DS post by ageek123 on Saturday November 13, 2021 @09:40PM (#29215010)
Databricks introduced an open source data sharing feature earlier this year. I don't know Databricks well enough to comment on the other two.
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