Polars Cloud and Distributed Polars now available

So competing with SnowFlake?

EDIT: I think the below is correct, but I’ve just seen in the main product landing page that for a certain benchmark it’s an order of magnitude cheaper AND faster than AWS glue, so that’s the target market by the looks of things.

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I don’t think so - probably more in the realms of spark and, based on the roadmap, airflow.

For me it would be about doing big data analytics / dashboarding / ML or DS data prep.

My understanding is that Snowflake plays a lot in the data warehouse/lakehouse space, so is more central to data ops / cataloguing / SSOT type work.

But hey that’s all first impressions from the press release.

moreso competing with Coiled Computing (Dask version, very similar, you can run Polars there too). and then Databricks more than Snowflake, but all of these data platforms converge on similar features. also competing with Fivetran eventually after their acquisition yesterday