Jun 26, 2023
Cost per query is a BigQuery metric, not a Snowflake compute metric.
Storage on Snowflake is passed onto their customer, as compressed micro-partitions customers experience a reduced cost of storage when using Snowflake traditional tables.
Also, Snowflake is not a Data Warehouse, it is a Data Cloud.
You can use it as a data warehouse, data lake, data science, data application and a lot more that will be announced at Summit in a few days.