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Serverless DuckDB vs Snowflake: How MotherDuck Saved My Team $12K/yr with Sub‑Second Queries

MotherDuck's serverless DuckDB platform saved a five-person finance team $12,000 per year on analytics costs by replacing Snowflake, reducing monthly bills from $1,800 to under $800 while delivering sub-second query performance on 800 GB of claims data.

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When my finance team’s Snowflake bill cleared $1,800 per month for a five-person analytics team querying roughly 800 GB of claims data, I… Continue reading on Towards AI »

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