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manigandham on June 15, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Recently minted database technologies that I find ...

It's not so difficult if you control the data. Snowflake offers a relational datawarehouse built on EC2/S3 (and now other clouds) with its own column-oriented data format (a hybrid called PAX). It can seek to the right columns and rows by getting the exact byte ranges from an S3 object.

jakebol on June 15, 2020 [–]

this is true (and a property of all? cloud formats Delta, Hudi, Iceberg, parquet, etc.)

I was referring more to the fact that the cloud vendors can co-design their infrastructure and software to support their database services.

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