Why did databricks and snowflake buy Postgres vendors?

Interesting, I was wondering why Snowflake was investing in PostgreSQL. Looks like Snowflake bought Crunchy Data and Databricks bought NEON… so the two leading DWaaS companies have managed PostgreSQL offerings now.

Likely their own fork, not plain PG.

It is, but it's not usable right now without some patches to postgres. At least that was the case as of PG17, and very likely 18 too.

Context: https://www.orioledb.com/docs#:~:text=OrioleDB%20currently%2...