Snowflake

Snowflake is a cloud-native data warehousing and analytical database service built entirely for the cloud, offering a unique multi-cluster shared data architecture. It separates compute, storage, and cloud services, enabling near-infinite scalability, high concurrency, and elastic performance…

Key facts

First appeared: 2012
Category: database
Problem solved: Snowflake was created to solve the limitations of traditional on-premise data warehouses and early cloud data warehouse offerings, which struggled with scalability, concurrency, performance, and cost-effectiveness. It addresses the challenge of handling rapidly growing data volumes and diverse data types without requiring complex administration, by decoupling compute and storage.
Platforms: AWS (Amazon Web Services), Azure (Microsoft Azure), GCP (Google Cloud Platform)

Related technologies

Google BigQuery
Amazon Redshift
Azure Synapse Analytics
Databricks Lakehouse Platform
Fivetran
Stitch
dbt (data build tool)
Airflow
Tableau
Power BI
Looker
Databricks (for specific workloads)
Apache Kafka
Python
Java

Notable users

Goldman Sachs
Capital One
Adobe
Activision Blizzard
Deliveroo
Experian
JetBlue