I'm curious if anyone is building: 1) business intelligence (Tableau, Looker), 2) user analytics (Mixpanel, Amplitude), or 3) a customer data platform (Segment) natively on S3 / object storage (outside of Databricks). I've had smart people tell me they would like these products.

Today, I met with five senior managers from enterprise data teams. Here are the key points from our discussion: All of them are using data warehouses, but none have tried single-node data stacks like @duckdb, Arrow, or @IbisData. They argued that single-node technology cannot handle serious... See more