Snowflake is a fully managed data warehouse that offers simplicity in data management and strong performance for analytics, making it ideal when businesses need to analyze vast amounts of data quickly. A specific scenario for using Snowflake over Trino is when a company needs to perform large-scale analytics on both structured and semi-structured data (like JSON) without the overhead of managing the infrastructure and configuration complexities associated with Trino.
Trino is ideal for scenarios where organizations need to combine data from various sources (like Hive, MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc.) without moving data into a single storage system. For example, if a company has data spread across different databases and wants to run unified analytics on it without the overhead of ETL processes, Trino would be the better choice.