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Can you compare the query performance and cost efficiency of querying Apache Iceberg tables directly versus loading them into Snowflake?

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Can you compare the query performance and cost efficiency of querying Apache Iceberg tables directly versus loading them into Snowflake?
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Snowflake Iceberg tables query performance external tables managed Iceberg cost compute storage documentationGoogle ↗
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