[conormccarter]

Snowflake has made it really easy to share to other Snowflake instances, and the other major cloud data warehouses are working on similar warehouse specific features as well. This makes sense because it can be a major driver of growth for them. The way we see the space play out is that every cloud warehouse develops some version of same-vendor sharing, while neglecting competitive warehouse support.

Long term, we'd like to be the interoperable player focused purely on data sharing that plays nicely with any of the upstream sources, but also facilitates connecting to any data destination. (This also means we can spend more time building thoughtful interfaces – API and UI – for onboarding and managing source and destination connections)

[soumyadeb]

Got it. Makes sense.

However, don't you think it makes sense for Snowflake to support "Replicate my Postgres/MySQL/Oracle" to Snowflake? Given how much they are investing in making it easier to get data into Snowflake.

[conormccarter]

Oh, yeah, it probably does make sense for the warehouses to make that part easier, at least for the more popular transactional db choices. You may have seen Google/BigQuery recently announced their off the shelf replication service for Oracle and MySQL. As far as Prequel goes, we connect to either (db or data warehouse sources), so we're largely agnostic to how the data moves around internally before it gets sent to customers.