Unistore, Snowflake’s New Workload for Transactional and Analytical Data

It’s very cool.

On the surface, it appears to be similar to Alibaba's HTAP system (alibabacloud.com/blog/what-is-t…). I would love to learn more about how they manage the fundamental tradeoffs between read latency/cost and (essentially unbounded) write amplification/cost. Any paper suggestions?