Streaming PostgreSQL to Snowflake with Snowpipe Streaming and Dynamic Tables for Lower Costs

The guide provides a detailed framework for data teams to transition from batch processing to real-time data streaming using Streamkap and Snowflake, facilitating low-latency data ingestion from PostgreSQL to a Snowflake data warehouse. It outlines the use of change data capture to minimize database load and explains how to configure PostgreSQL and Snowflake environments, including setting up logical replication, monitoring, access restrictions, and connectors. The guide emphasizes the cost-effectiveness of this approach, highlighting that streaming with Streamkap and Snowflake can reduce ETL costs by up to 90% compared to traditional methods. It also discusses the capabilities of Snowflake Dynamic Tables for efficient data modeling and the potential for real-time data science applications, analytical workloads, and customer-facing dashboards. The guide aims to show that modern streaming solutions are now comparable in complexity to batch processes while being more economical and straightforward to deploy.