For those worried about budget, the prospect of replicating data across multiple tools might raise a few eyebrows. Won’t duplicating all this data lead to higher storage costs? Gupta says that while the cost of data storage does go up, it typically increases by an immaterial amount.
“The question people ask is ‘Now that we’re running all the queries on my warehouse, is my warehouse going to be charged a lot more?’ When we run the analysis, we ask the customer to make a separate user for us in their Snowflake or Big Query so we can see how much they’re paying for these queries. It’s usually sub one percent of their data warehouse cost.”