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chkelly9on ClickHouse saved our events engine problem

Nice, clear description of OLTP v OLAP :) Have you heard about Hydra since their launch? Curious whether you've played around with it and how that went?

chkelly9on Mixtral 8x7B passes a test that only GPT-4 and Falcon 180B passed before

Seems likely that the model has been trained on this (or other) riddles, which doesn't necessarily mean it's more powerful than others more generally.

chkelly9on What's Happening with Feast?

There haven't been contributions to the repo in over a week. I saw a few days ago that Tecton posted to their site that they were looking for a new maintainer, but that message is gone now. Does anyone have an idea? Is this project dead?

chkelly9on Canopy is an open-source Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) framework

Curious why Pinecone would invest in building their own RAG framework, esp given how quickly the space is moving. Curious how others here feel about this. Will RAG frameworks still be necessary in the same way, say ... 6 months to a year down the line?

chkelly9on SQL-Based Observability

[Disclaimer, I work @ ClickHouse]

We agree - we currently have experimental support for JSON, but it is experimental and has some challenges. We're also working on a parallel track, to support semistructured columns (https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/issues/54864). This is an alternative to the experimental JSON data type, that aims to address its drawbacks.

chkelly9on Most companies do not need Snowflake or Databricks

[Disclaimer: I work at ClickHouse] I see a lot of the responses here focus on the age-old ‘build v. buy’ debate.

It’s also worth considering the comparative cost of Snowflake against other saas warehouses or databases, depending on your needs. For instance, we’ve heard from users that ClickHouse Cloud can be much more cost-effective for many use cases when compared to Snowflake - real-time analytics is a great example. For those who can’t build (or run OSS themselves), this is another interesting (and important) dimension. What's great about ClickHouse is that it's open source, too :).