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If you can afford it, I have a hard time coming up with reasons to not use Snowflake.
by 9283409232 1y ago
If you can afford it, I have a hard time coming up with reasons to not use Snowflake.
- skeeter2020 1y agoOne good reason is that a huge population of companies just don't have enough data to justify Snowflake. We sell a product built on it, and I wish we'd had DuckDB 3-4 years ago; it's perfect for 95%+ of our clients
- 9283409232 1y agoI think DuckDB is great but I don't think it is necessarily playing the same game as Snowflake. A lot of people want the serverless option and DuckDB is not that.
- mrbungie 1y agoDuckDB on a lambda/serverless python function wrapper or in WASM (for client-side workloads) is as stateless and serverless as you can get. In that case BigQuery is more managed than both, PAYG for analytical queries without thinking about compute nor clusters whatsoever.
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- 9283409232 1y agoBigQuery is more expensive than Snowflake though. You might as well just do Motherduck which would be cheaper than BQ but let you pull data from S3 which is cheaper than Snowflake storage.
- ziml77 1y agoJust for the data sharing feature alone it's worth using. It's so damn easy to onboard and maintain data sources when they have a Snowflake share. You don't have to worry each day about loading processes randomly failing and you don't have to write any custom logic to hit APIs and properly flatten and merge responses into the database.