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Although companies like Snowflake are bridging the gap between the two camps, with products that can natively ingest JSON and Avro, and makes it queryable via S
by maxlamb 10y ago
Although companies like Snowflake are bridging the gap between the two camps, with products that can natively ingest JSON and Avro, and makes it queryable via SQL allowing for joins etc.
- fail2fail2ban 10y agoIt's possible to use SQL to retrieve data from a text file; that's not the same as using SQL backed by an actual relational database engine (and a well designed schema) that has been perfected over many decades.
- maxlamb 10y agoSnowflake does have a relational database engine, it was actually founded by two Oracle engineers (who had worked at Oracle 15+ years)