Paul Horan
Nov 25, 2023

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A few additions to your "comprehensive" assessment of Snowflake functionality.

Query Interface should include Snowpark Dataframe, which is modeled on the PySpark API.

Snowflake does support unstructured data.

Snowflake is about to release support for Iceberg tables, which would eliminate all those persistent rumors of "vendor lock-in". And claiming that Databricks has "no vendor lock-in" is just false. If you take advantage of specific features like Photon, Delta Live Tables, Delta Sharing, or Unity Catalog, you're just as locked in as any other technology.

And all the asterisks denoting "Through partner ecosystem" should be deleted. All of those features are now native capabilities of Snowflake.

It feels like you based this article on sources from 2021 or 2022.

Full disclosure: Snowflake employee here.

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Paul Horan
Paul Horan

Written by Paul Horan

Principal Sales Engineer with Snowflake — US Public Sector.

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