You seem to be quite sure of how useful duckdb is even though you haven’t found a use case for it. This is actually a common pattern I’ve seen everywhere - the people super excited about duckdb are people who never use it in their job and at best for toy use cases.

If your data is truly small enough to run on a vps with duckdb, your monthly snowflake bill will not break a few hundred dollars by any stretch. A terabyte stored on snowflake costs 23 bucks a month and running a query on it depending on complexity will cost no more than a dollar. And you don’t pay any cost other than these two.