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Re:Snowflake to Buy Crunchy Data for $250M by gk1 on Monday June 02, 2025 @05:15PM (#44163095)
Low-latency and cheap retrieval for RAG.
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Re:Snowflake to Buy Crunchy Data for $250M by FridgeSeal on Monday June 02, 2025 @05:55PM (#44163544)
But why do they need serverless Postgres for that?

They could achieve the same with normal pg, or SQLite. Or any number of other embedded DB’s. There’s also plenty of disaggregated compute options available…

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Re:Snowflake to Buy Crunchy Data for $250M by redwood on Monday June 02, 2025 @06:08PM (#44163675)
I imagine they are buying the expertise in managing the transactional system rather than the IP itself. Operationally running a transactional system is a different ballgame for these OLAP players.

(of course what they're not getting is scale readiness.. it's not like these companies have anything resembling RDS level customer workloads)

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