Snowflake’s Data Warehouse Runs on Relational Database in the Cloud
October 23, 2014
Grazed from TalkinCloud. Author: Mike Vizard.
Relational databases were not designed from the ground up for the cloud or, for that matter, to handle big data. Nobody knows that better than Bob Muglia, former head of the Server and Tools division of Microsoft (MSFT). As the CEO of startup Snowflake Computing, Muglia has taken the wraps off a Snowflake Elastic Data Warehouse service in the cloud, built on top of a relational database that Snowflake developed specifically for that purpose.
In addition, Snowflake Computing announced it has picked up an additional $26 million in funding, part of which will be used to create a customer and partner ecosystem around the new cloud service. After a brief detour at Juniper Networks, Muglia is back in the software infrastructure business…
He said the Snowflake database enables data warehouse applications to independently scale users, data and workloads without there being any underlying contention for resources…
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