> I think that this is a future that members of the community should be concerned about; I would prefer to see this layer emerge in a cross-platform way.
This is definitely one of the things I am concerned about. I'm talking to a lot of developers of data apps, and while I generally agree that Snowflake is the innovator here, you miss out on a lot of the market by tying yourself exclusively to them (or Google, AWS, Azure, etc.)
At MessageGears, we've made our approach to just connect and run all operations via JDBC, but even Google/BigQuery has made that difficult because they don't support an official JDBC driver (we opted to integrate with their APIs instead).
We should be trying to encourage them to use a consitent framework, but I'm worried it might be too late at this point.
> I think that this is a future that members of the community should be concerned about; I would prefer to see this layer emerge in a cross-platform way.
This is definitely one of the things I am concerned about. I'm talking to a lot of developers of data apps, and while I generally agree that Snowflake is the innovator here, you miss out on a lot of the market by tying yourself exclusively to them (or Google, AWS, Azure, etc.)
At MessageGears, we've made our approach to just connect and run all operations via JDBC, but even Google/BigQuery has made that difficult because they don't support an official JDBC driver (we opted to integrate with their APIs instead).
We should be trying to encourage them to use a consitent framework, but I'm worried it might be too late at this point.