I only knew Snowflake the id selection algorithm, so was a bit confused, but googling "snowflake db" showed me this blurb and now I'm even more confused.
> Snowflake enables organizations to learn, build, and connect with their data-driven peers. Collaborate, build data apps & power diverse workloads in the ...
Snowflake is an amazing Agile database that has a great ecosystem. Teradata still remains king if you want this type of cloud datawarehouse, and becomes price competitive with Snowflake if you actually use it intensively (transactions are cheaper on teradata than snowflake)
But in the end, a good managed postgresql is probably enough for 80% of the clients of Synaps/Snowflake anyway. It's just that CTO's are starting to lose technical knowledge and are more politicians nowadays