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Databricks seems on a convergent evolution towards Snowflake, between the two of them I’d rather be starting at the position Snowflake is versus Databricks.
by mobileexpert 6y ago
Databricks seems on a convergent evolution towards Snowflake, between the two of them I’d rather be starting at the position Snowflake is versus Databricks.
- benjaminwootton 6y agoThey are both going towards the "Data Lakehouse" end point which is driving some of the convergence. Silly term, but basically providing analytics and a database type experience over a data lake. That said, Databricks is a much broader platform, with all of the collaboration environments and is generally much more programmable than Snowflake.
- nchammas 6y ago> providing analytics and a database type experience over a data lake. It's interesting how the modern data lake is developing in this way, recreating many patterns from the traditional database for distributed systems and massive scale: SQL and query optimization, transactions and time travel, schema evolution and data constraints... Having started out as a database developer / DBA many years ago, working with data lakes today reminds me in many ways of that early part of my career. I wrote a post tracing a common interface from the typical relational database to the modern data lake. https://nchammas.com/writing/modern-data-lake-database https://nchammas.com/writing/modern-data-lake-database