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creeksaion Postgres data stored in Parquet on S3: LTAP architecture explained

Did you even read the blog? Or are you just throwing shade because you are working on a competitive product based on CDC?

creeksaion Databricks in talks to acquire startup Neon for about $1B

I totally understand if Databricks doesn't fit your use cases.

But you are doing a disingenuous comparison here because one can keep a "serverful" cluster up without shutting it down, and in that case, you'd never need to wait for anything to boot up. If you shut down your EC2 instances, it will also take time to boot up. Alternatively, you can use the (relatively new) serverless offering from them that gets you compute resources in seconds.

creeksaion Databricks in talks to acquire startup Neon for about $1B

You mentioned earlier about how long it would take to acquire a new cluster in Databricks, but you are comparing it here to something that's always on here. In a much larger environment, your setup is not really practical to have a lot of people collaborating.

Note that Databricks SQL Serverless these days can be provisioned in a few seconds.