What Is the Ideal Cloud Data Warehouse Platform?

The article discusses the challenges faced by traditional data warehouse architectures and how cloud platforms can overcome them. It highlights the difficulties in managing conflicting requirements such as maximizing query performance, throughput, and machine usage. The author also explores potential solutions like limiting resource usage, database and application tuning, and improving hardware. However, these methods have their limitations, including capped maximum usage, built-in inefficiency, and the need for constant upgrades. The ideal cloud data warehouse platform should allow independent scaling of compute and storage resources, offer fast deployment, complete flexibility, separate payment for storage, zero contention, and absolute simplicity. Modern cloud data warehouses can automatically scale up or down to cope with increased demands and provide automatic scale-out options during peak periods. These platforms charge for compute resources on a per-second basis, making them both compelling and potentially cost-effective solutions.