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Date Published
Author
Nico Acosta
Word count
869
Language
English
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None

Summary

Snowflake data warehouses centralize data from various sources, including internal databases and SaaS applications, with the goal of enabling data visualization and analysis. However, leveraging Snowflake for building customer-facing applications, such as in-product analytics or customer insights, is often hindered by complexity and cost concerns, particularly querying the warehouse directly from these applications. Propel's Snowflake Data Source aims to address this challenge, providing low-latency response times, an easy-to-use GraphQL API, and cost-effectiveness at scale, allowing developers to build complex products in minutes without managing highly-available data infrastructure. By connecting Snowflake data platform to Propel, developers can access a high-performance GraphQL API, reducing the effort needed to produce scalable experiences when building in-product analytics.