squirrelly

ORLY? Redshift is half the cost of Snowflake for any given level of performance. The bigger your dataset to wider the gap will be.

Ha, $500k/year is the amount a salesperson can knock off the cost of Teradata 100TB setup without calling their boss.

As for ops stuff, I guess YMMV. We’ve never had any significant issues. Tuning is the same or less than on-prem systems IME.

Perf is still pretty much unmatched in the cloud, especially perf/$. Try to do a join on 100tb in a competing system (e.g. BQ) and it won’t finish.

> Redshift falls over near the 100TB level.

This is based on what? They have stated in various presentations that they have customers using 1pb clusters.

Snowflake has one answer to every question. Use more compute == Spend more money. E.g. Q: “This query is 2x slower than Redshift?” A: $