Snowflake pledges row-based storage engine for transactional data

Cloud data warehouse specialist Snowflake is broadening its toolset to allow devs to build applications inside its platform, while providing a new row-based storage engine to support analytics on transactional data. Launched at its annual conference this week, the features are part of a plan to encourage users – and investors …

[Pascal Monett]

What's the difference ?

"no longer see it as a mere cloud data warehouse and to view it more as a platform for sharing data and data-analytics applications"

What is the function of a "mere" cloud data wharehouse ? To have data accessible in The Cloud^TM. So how can a cloud data wharehouse not share data and whatever else is running there ?

This is nothing but a marketing announcement, and nobody but salespeople and amoebas with one brain cell are going to buy into it.

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Interesting....

The guy who started Postgres all those years ago is now saying that Postgres should create a column store engine ( El Reg Linky ) and here we have, arguably, a vast column store system adding "row store" to its repetoire.

I wonder - could some unholy chimera of both systems work? <----- joke for those who need to be told.