Ankur Goyal on X: "Quick rant about RDBMS, multi-tenancy, and AI. Data warehouses are great if you control the shape of your data and hand-code schema definitions. And they are basically useless for multi-tenant products (like @datadoghq, @splunk, @braintrustdata, etc.) where you have to ingest…" / X
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Ankur Goyal @ankrgyl Quick rant about RDBMS, multi-tenancy, and AI. Data warehouses are great if you control the shape of your data and hand-code schema definitions. And they are basically useless for multi-tenant products (like @ datadoghq , @ splunk , @braintrustdata, etc.) where you have to ingest customer data. The recommended fixes -- "reshape your data", "add casts", "fix the schema", "create more tables", etc. -- simply do not work with multi-tenant data. In fact, companies that scale, like @ datadoghq end up building tech like datadoghq.com/blog/engineeri… , which overlap significantly
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