This is a quick, high-signal run-through of Snowflake Interactive Warehouses and Interactive Tables, what they unlock, and the gotchas (timeouts, always-on cost), plus how this compares to ClickHouse for true real-time analytics.

• Why Interactive Tables now: faster, more consistent user-facing analytics in Snowflake

• What they are: Interactive Warehouses + Interactive Tables, how they differ from standard

• ⁠Constraints: short-query focus, strict timeouts, not for heavy scans

• ⁠Cost tradeoffs: always-on risk, where teams overspend, how to set guardrails

• ⁠When to use: high-concurrency dashboards/lookups vs when not to

• ⁠Pilot plan: what to migrate first, what to measure, governance basics

• ⁠Q&A and real-world use cases