Traditional ETL solutions are still quite powerful when it comes to:

• Common connectors with small-medium data volumes : we still have a lot of respect for companies like Fivetran, who have really nailed the user experience for the most common ETL use cases, like syncing Zendesk tickets or a production Postgres read replica into Snowflake. The only

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Most commonly, ETL means moving data from some source system (e.g. a production database, Slack API) into an analytical data warehouse (e.g. Snowflake) where the data is easier to combine and analyze. Most data teams use a vendor like Fivetran or an orchestration platform like Airflow to do this.

Modal is a great solution for ETL if you are... See more

This job copied 12m rows from Clickhouse to Snowflake in 16 minutes using:

• 5 CPUs : at $0.192 / CPU hour that comes out to $0.26


• 4.4 GiB of memory: at $0.024 / GiB per hour that comes out to $0.03

Even if Fivetran had a ClickHouse connector (it doesn’t at the time of this writing), syncing 12m rows would cost ~$3300. The total cost of this Modal job... See more