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Snowflake development

Cloud data warehouse with separated storage and compute.

Category
data
Vendor
Open source
We use it for
7 capabilities

The honest assessment

What it is
Cloud data warehouse with separated storage and compute.
Strongest at
elastic compute and clean workload isolation across teams
Trade-off
consumption pricing that punishes unoptimised queries quickly
Category
data
Vendor
Open source

We hold no reseller commission on Snowflake. That is what makes the trade-off line above worth reading. It costs us nothing to tell you when this is the wrong choice.

Building with Snowflake

Snowflake is strongest at elastic compute and clean workload isolation across teams. We reach for it when that is the property a workload actually depends on, and we say so when it is not.

Snowflake separates storage from compute, which means an analyst running a heavy query cannot slow down the pipeline loading tonight's data. For organisations where those two workloads fight each other, that isolation alone justifies the move.

Consumption pricing is the discipline it demands. An unoptimised query left on a schedule is a recurring bill rather than a one-off mistake, so cost monitoring belongs in the implementation rather than in a later clean-up.

We build the smallest thing that proves the case, put it in front of real users, and expand only what earns its keep. You own the code, the models where they are open-weight, and the documentation to run it without us.

Questions

What is Snowflake best at?

Elastic compute and clean workload isolation across teams.

When would you not use Snowflake?

Consumption pricing that punishes unoptimised queries quickly. We would look at pgvector or Pinecone in that situation.

Do you have a commercial relationship with Snowflake?

No. We hold no reseller commission on any technology we recommend, which is what lets the trade-off above be stated plainly.

Can you work with our existing Snowflake setup?

Yes. We would rather extend and stabilise something that already works than introduce a parallel system your team has to learn.

Working with Snowflake?

Tell us the workload and we will tell you whether this is the right tool for it.

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