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Storage optimization

Storage is the quiet line item: the wrong billing model, tables nobody queries, and layouts that make every job read too much. We compare billing models and flag tables whose layout no longer fits.

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On BigQuery

Available

Logical vs physical dataset billing, long-term storage candidates, CLUSTER BY recommendations, and large tables with neither partition nor cluster.

BigQuery product

On Snowflake

Waitlist

Coming soon: Time Travel and Fail-safe bytes, clustering depth that never converges, and tables nobody has queried still sitting in TABLE_STORAGE_METRICS.

Snowflake product

On Databricks

Waitlist

Coming soon: ZORDER / liquid clustering gaps, unused Delta tables, and file-size debt that makes every scan open too many Parquet files.

Databricks product
How it works

Pay only for the bytes you still use

  1. 01

    Read DDL and storage stats

    Sizes, billing model, partition and cluster keys — catalog only.

  2. 02

    Join to recent jobs

    A 4 TB table nobody queried is a different finding from one queried hourly.

  3. 03

    Recommend the cheaper layout

    Partition, cluster, or drop. You decide which, and who applies it.

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