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(edit: mostly offtopic observation follows) I only knew Snowflake the id selection algorithm, so was a bit confused, but googling "snowflake db" showed me this

• quickslowdown 3y ago
  Snowflake & Azure Synapse are competing products, if that helps.
  • dacryn 3y ago
    synapse is such a disaster. I don't know any example of a decent size succesfull deployment that. It grinds to a halt and charges you a lot of money for it. Snowflake is an amazing Agile database that has a great ecosystem. Teradata still remains king if you want this type of cloud datawarehouse, and becomes price competitive with Snowflake if you actually use it intensively (transactions are cheaper on teradata than snowflake) But in the end, a good managed postgresql is probably enough for 80% of the clients of Synaps/Snowflake anyway. It's just that CTO's are starting to lose technical knowledge and are more politicians nowadays