Cloud Database News from Snowflake, SingleStore, Oracle, and Neon
As some vendors ride new momentum, one industry leader faces "fading" influence
It’s the beginning of summer here in New York, so I thought I’d share a few “hot takes” on recent developments in the world of databases. In the week ahead, I will be traveling to San Francisco, my third trip to the Bay area in the past couple of months. There’s so much happening in this fast-paced industry. Here’s the latest.
Snowflake takes on transactions
There were a handful of announcements at Snowflake Summit on June 14-15, including new capabilities for the company’s forthcoming Snowpark for Python environment (which is in public preview), access to data stored in on-premises storage (in private preview), and a Native Application Framework for building apps that are hosted in Snowflake’s Marketplace (private preview), which sounds a bit like Apple’s App Store model.
However, the biggest news, at least in terms of cloud databases, is Unistore, a capability that brings together transactional and analytical workloads in a single Snowflake platform. This had been the buzz in the in…