I'm interested in what the competition is doing. I failed to get a job with one of the direct competitors, but soon I have an interview with another competing company. According to what some people who are there told me, it is not ideal there either, but it would be much better for me there than at TD. It seems that in this company, those at the top are the least interested in what the competition is doing? It would seem reasonable that they should be the ones paying the most attention. Just saying.
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Not sure why are people upvoting the pricing comment below- The storage price is generic (not useful for competitive comparison, and certainly not for trading decisions!), it is missing the costs of the compute clusters and the cloud services utilized, and it ignores buried costs due to inefficiency and large scale.
This post will get downvoted by the snowflake marketing team, but there are plenty of credible customer and third party references to support this.
Snowflake storage cost are 1 dollar per day per terabyte. $365 a year. Teradata is done. Snowflake has equivalent SQL. Sell you stock.
What the last poster said - no one is really that bothered about Teradata being a competitor these days and especially not customers.
Evey company has its competitors. But not evey competitor of Teradata considers Teradata as its competitor. For example, Teradata thinks Oracle is a competitor, but Oracle doesn't even care about Teradata. If you are interviewing with one of TD's competitors, don't assume Teradata is their competitor. I am sure you are doing some homework before interviewing, but you need to shft your mind as less TD-centric as you may be right now. Just my 2 cents. (I obviously don't know you @bwc+1f03noZs - I am not trying to sound rude or anything.)
SF, Synapse, Redshift are 1st league. Than you have all the lakehouse stories coming after DWH. Next, all the DBs / DWHs from less known shops. Competition is investing heavily and bar is high already. They all track each other and keep functionality close to parity all the time.