There are a couple different reasons that make this acquisition interesting. First is their long pursuit of HTAP and the failures around unistore. Snowflake w

There are a couple different reasons that make this acquisition interesting. First is their long pursuit of HTAP and the failures around unistore. Snowflake wanted to get into transactional workloads for a long time and for good reasons. I wonder what will happen to Unistore after this acquisition. The other interesting part is ETL/ELT, CDC and the whole business of replicating transactional databases into OLAP. What crunchy built with duckdb and iceberg is a potential solution to this problem. A problem that has been painful to solve for a long long time. Being able to replicate your transactional database into your data lake or data warehouse without having to deal with Debezium and all the rest of the stuff, is going to make many data teams happy.