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Re:Snowflake Computing raises $263M for its data warehouse on Monday January 29, 2018 @11:47AM (#16258576)
Nothing to do with Snowflake schemas actually... The founders are avid skiers, and the name represents their passion for the snow.
Re:Busting myths about BigQuery on Sunday December 24, 2017 @10:09AM (#15999822)
I guess - if you consider 30 year old legacy technologies insanely cool... Redshift is a shared-nothing architecture, so you'll always face scalability and concurrency issues. Snowflake is a brand new MPP shared-data architecture, and it can scale compute and storage separately. Blows Redshift away.