aptxkid

I genuinely think DeWitt clause is good for the users (bad for researchers). Without it, especially in the context of cooperate competitions, the company with the most marketing power will win. Users can always compare different products themselves. I am likely wrong but please help me understand.

I disagree. It makes sense for Snowflake to response to what-they-think-is an unreasonably bad result published by Databricks. And they focused more on Snowflake’s result and only compared dollar cost against Databricks. It’s consistent with their philosophy that public benchmark war is beside the point and mostly a distraction.

Exactly. That’s why I think public benchmark war is just a waste of time. There will ALWAYS be some subtle differences between the two platforms that results will never be apple to apple.

Snowflake claims the snowflake result from Databricks was not audited. It’s not that Databricks numbers were artificially good but rather Snowflake’s number was unreasonably bad.

I don’t think they are saying benchmark is not important but rather public benchmark war being a distraction.

It’s probably just me but the distinction between datalake and data warehouse seems like splitting hairs. Unstructured data can always be stored on structure databases. What’s the main reason for both to coexist?

Whose result can be trusted is beside the point - I actually believe both experiments were likely conducted in good faith but with incomplete context. But that’s beside the point. The point is there’s no good reason to start a benchmark war to begin with.

Personally I think it’s a great response and very well written. I didn’t jump on the congrats-Databricks wagon when the result first came out because of the weird front page comparison against snowflake. Both companies are doing great work. Focusing on building a better product for your customer is much more meaningful than making your competitor look bad.

People have different skill sets. I bet there are engineers out there feeling more comfortable building a mobile app than a webapp.

I agree that positive vs. negative is beside the point. But deadlock and positive feedback loop are different things though.