danshalev7

Feels like people will find a workaround and it’ll be another waste of taxpayer money

Hi HN, I work on FalkorDB, an open-source graph database.

We just launched FalkorDB as a Snowflake Native App. If you find yourself writing recursive CTEs and chains of self-joins to answer multi-hop relationship queries in Snowflake, this gives you Cypher instead. A variable-length path query that takes 80+ lines of SQL becomes about 3 lines of Cypher, and you run it from your Snowflake worksheet without moving data anywhere.

The way it works is you bind your tables through Snowflake's reference binding UI (scoped read access, no manual GRANT statements), and the FalkorDB engine runs on Snowflake Container Services with isolated compute, separate from your warehouse workloads. Data never leaves your Snowflake account.

We'd love to hear from anyone who has dealt with multi-hop traversals in Snowflake, whether you stuck with recursive CTEs, reached for dbt, or tried something else entirely.

Looks interesting!

Thnx for the FalkorDB shoutout!

Very interesting

Thank you

We built an open-source tool that lets you chat with your graph database in plain English: just ask questions and get answers. We combined FalkorDB's speed with a Text-to-Cypher translator and wrapped it all up with APIs you can actually use.

Would love feedback and comments, thank you