Snowflake
Snowflake is one of the most popular data clouds,
used by various companies around the world.
Snowflake: Quick fix to manage database
Snowflake is one of the most popular data clouds, used by various companies around the world. It offers fast and easy-to-use data processing and storage, and analytics solutions and has been used by our team on several occasions.
This platform is original, it combines an SQL query engine with an innovative architecture designed natively for the cloud. Snowflake provides the user with the functionality of an enterprise analytics database.
Snowflake services for companies
Data Warehousing
Allows companies to store and manage large amounts of structured and semi-structured data.
Data Lake Warehouse Integration
Snowflake integrates seamlessly with data lakes, allowing businesses to combine structured and semi-structured data for comprehensive analytics and insights.
Data Sharing
Snowflake facilitates secure, governed data sharing between organizations, departments, and external partners.
Data Analytics
Snowflake offers powerful analytics capabilities, including support for SQL queries, machine learning, and data visualization tools.
As mentioned on their official website “Snowflake's architecture is a hybrid of traditional shared-disk and shared-nothing database architectures. Similar to shared disk architectures, Snowflake uses a central data repository for persistent data that can be accessed from all compute nodes on the platform.”
This system offers the user and customer the performance and scale-out benefits of a shared architecture and the data management simplicity of a shared disk architecture.
Why Snowflake?
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Versatile
It offers fast, easy-to-use data storage, processing, and analytics solutions.
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Accessible
A web-based user interface from which all aspects of managing and using Snowflake can be accessed.
3
Analytical
Snowflake provides the user with the functionality of an enterprise analytics database.
