These kinds of articles always make me a little sad. They trick me. I start to believe “rticle” follows the A, like a good language model, and in my horror I find it should have been “dvertisement.”<p>> Spending too much on snowflake? This one tool (of ours) can help (for some cash) reduce how much cash you are spending!<p>Spend to spend less. For a company struggling with spend, perhaps that’s the argument of a fixed price. Think less.<p>Fixed vs usage based isn’t really important beyond the bottom line. Data, Serverless, doesn’t matter. It’s just a means of charging dollars, and as long as the right amount of dollars are spent, all is well.<p>Shouldn’t be important at all without sufficient accompanying headcount. What good is a cost-effective tool without a hand to hold it? Funny thing, that.
If demand for database products is/was inelastic, why are so many SaaS data vendors not profitable after IPO? (Elastic NV [0], Confluent [1], Snowflake [2], ...) They should just be able to increase their prices to become profitable. But they don't, ergo must be competing on price.<p>[0] <a href="https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/ESTC" rel="nofollow">https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/ESTC</a><p>[1] <a href="https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/CFLT" rel="nofollow">https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/CFLT</a><p>[2] <a href="https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/SNOW" rel="nofollow">https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/SNOW</a>
It's not clear what the value add of this is vs OSS DIY Spark + Iceberg?<p>Free option is already available through OSS Spark/super low cost EMR. What's your value add over those?