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The term serverless is somewhat misleading because servers obviously exist somewhere. This is not magic. For decades, deploying a database meant answering impossible questions. How much capacity do you need? How many CPU cores, how much memory, how much disk?…
I have various posts on this site that talk to indexes. But Snowflake’s indexing and search approach is quite different from traditional approaches like B-trees. It doesn’t maintain B-tree indexes like row-based relational databases, like MySQL or PostgreSQL. No User-Created…
Streaming data systems and relational databases each offer immense value. Streaming excels at delivering low-latency, real-time insights; relational databases give strong consistency, rich transactional guarantees, and mature tooling. Yet, integrating these worlds without sacrificing usability or correctness has long been…
Databricks (like Snowflake) doesn’t rely on traditional B-trees, because it’s built on a cloud-native, columnar, distributed file architecture. It avoids B-trees entirely because the cost of maintaining per-row index structures would destroy the scalability benefits of its append-only, distributed Parquet…
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