The end of big data
&gt; But we never connected these dots during our evaluation because the story Databricks told was buzzwords. Snowflake’s was boring, and all we wanted—at least at first—was boring.<p>How do you describe a chocolate gâteau to someone who has only ever eaten rice?<p>&gt; Databricks is a big, fast database that you can write SQL and Python against<p>It really isn’t.  Spark is not a database, certainly not an RDBMS.  This reminds me of the people in the office who used to call the computer on their desk “the hard drive”.<p>If you’ve never worked with tools like Pandas, or R, or SAS, you’re just not going to understand Spark and Databricks.