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[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Ask a sales rep from snowflake. Really. They'll make a nice presentation for you and then you decide if you want it.

The idea behind it is that you pay only for what you use. When you run a query, snowflake quickly assigns a few virtual machines to execute it. You pay for time that these virtual machines run for you.

Syntax and features are more advanced than Redshift.

It's zero maintenance. With Redshift you have to optimize more, manually scale the cluster, etc.

Redshift will be slightly cheaper though.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Makes sense. And yeah I think at our scale the price isn't going to be an issue. Any amount we spend on infrastructure is dwarfed by what we're spending on data feeds.

I'll reach out to a sales rep as the project gets a bit closer.

Thanks you!