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What are the performance tradeoffs when querying semi-structured JSON data natively in Snowflake compared to parsing it beforehand in an Apache Spark pipeline?

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What are the performance tradeoffs when querying semi-structured JSON data natively in Snowflake compared to parsing it beforehand in an Apache Spark pipeline?
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