Cloud Data Warehouses & OLAP Databases
Snowflake & BigQuery
Proprietary Cost$3,000-$120,000+/year ($2-$4/credit compute + $23-$40/TB storage + data egress fees)
Proprietary cloud data warehouses charging astronomical compute credit markups, high per-TB query scan fees ($3,000-$120k+/year), and proprietary SQL dialect lock-in.
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