The Great Lock In Convergence In recent months, three major vendors – Snowflake, Databricks, and Microsoft – have launched Postgres flavored databases with custom storage layers and scale out architectures.
At first glance, these offerings might seem like welcome developments for developers seeking to harness the power of Postgres in cloud native environments.
However, a closer examination reveals that these new databases are not merely improvements on traditional Postgres but deliberate attempts to create lock in scenarios.