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Exactly. Not sure about Netflix special, but there are experts that have dedicated their professional careers to creating fair benchmarks. Snowflake should just participate in the official TPC benchmark.

Disclaimer: Databricks cofounder who authored the original blog post.

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The benchmark itself is kinda useless, so I don't see why they should. If you look at tpc-h for years, you had exasol as a top dog, but in the real world that meant nothing for them.

Exactly, companies learnt from Exasol Out of the box performance is the name of the game Executing a benchmark as complex as TPC-DS without tuning by Databricks or Snowflake is a big accomplishment

Come on, you're going to make a ton of money on the IPO now focus on the things that matter in life... ie: starring in a netflix special.

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