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Snowflake customers must choose between performance and flexibility

Snowflake’s Gen 2 warehouses promise increased performance, while its Adaptive Warehouses will fit to data demands, but enterprises can’t have both at once.

Jun 4, 2025 4 mins

Cloud Computing Data Warehousing

Snowflake takes aim at legacy data workloads with SnowConvert AI migration tools

With the free agent-based suite of migration tools, Snowflake says enterprises can move workloads without increasing complexity.

Jun 3, 2025 3 mins

Data Management Data Warehousing

Real-time analytics with StarTree Cloud and Apache Pinot

Open-source distributed OLAP database and powerful SaaS counterpart shine with plug-in indexes, signature tunable star-tree index, and ability to combine batch data with streaming data.

Jun 3, 2025 16 mins

Big Data Databases SaaS

Google Cloud’s BigLake-driven lakehouse updates aim to optimize performance, costs

Some of the updates could help enterprises increase the accuracy of AI applications and agents, and increase developer productivity with AI.

May 29, 2025 5 mins

Data Warehousing

Learning how to measure genAI’s impact

Measuring the performance boost from a new CPU is pretty straightforward, but how to measure the performance of an AI model? Developers, tech, and business leaders are being asked to quantify generative AI’s return on investment. Our top storie

Apr 18, 2025 2 mins

Business Intelligence Generative AI Machine Learning