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gigatexal11/04/20251 replyview on HN

Honestly. Just pay snowflake for the amazing DB and ecosystem it is. And then go build cool stuff unless your value add to customers is infra let them handle all that.


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thejosh11/05/2025

Sounds great until you're locked into Snowflake - so glad iceberg is becoming the standard, anything is great.

The trap you end up in is you have to pay snowflake to access your data, iceberg and other technology help with the walled garden.

Not just snowflake, any pay on use provider.

(Context - have spent 5+ years working with Snowflake, it's great, have built drivers for various languages, etc).

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