The higher editions of Snowflake include features like materialised views, dynamic data masking, BYOK, PCI & HIPAA compliance etc., non of which are required for the benchmark.
https://www.snowflake.com/pricing/
Amongst other things, listed under the enterprise tier, and not lower tiers, is "Database failover and failback for business continuity".
"The higher editions of Snowflake include features like materialised views, dynamic data masking, BYOK, PCI & HIPAA compliance etc., non of which are required for the benchmark."
Yeah, but they are referencing a price/performance comparison to a Databricks tier that DOES have those things. That's the point. Update your own numbers with a lower tier, but don't update the competitor tier too?
[Edit] Highly Available would be a better description per region, as that's out of the box with no configuration. e.g. if a node dies, your cluster will automatically heal and resubmit your query. If there's an entire AZ outage, your query should be resubmitted in another AZ. I think this is why failover/back is called out separately, as that's not automatic, incurs additional costs etc. Here's a link with an explanation: www.snowflake.com/blog/how-to-make-data-protection-and-high-availability-for-analytics-fast-and-easy
I didn't know DB did MVs, masking etc., so yes, that makes sense. Maybe a better idea would be to have a minimum offering comparison, and then a maximum offering comparison (with multi-AZ failover, masking feature costs etc. included) - the reality for a customer would be somewhere between those extremes.