SNOWFLAKE
Snowflake ?is a cloud data platform. To be more specific it’s the first cloud built data platform. Its architecture allows data specialists to not only create data warehouses but also cloud data lake-houses because it can manage both structured and unstructured data easily.
Being that Snowflake is based in the cloud, this means that it allows developers to take advantage of elasticity and scalability without worrying about things like high up front costs, performance, or complexity of managing the system.
So Why Use Snowflake?
There are a lot of options when it comes to?cloud data warehouses ?and everyone has specific use cases. However, our team is finding more and more users are either selecting or switching over to Snowflake for its many useful features and overall ease of use.
Here are just some of the reasons why we are finding people enjoy using SnowflakeDB.
Cloud Agnostic
Snowflake is not limited to one specific cloud provider. Instead, companies can seamlessly scale their?data warehouse ?across Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and GCP.
Meaning companies don’t need to spend time setting up hybrid cloud systems.
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Performance and Speed
Snowflake is built for performance. Starting with the underlying infrastructure that is built to run analytical queries. To add to that the elastic nature of the cloud means if you want to load data faster, or run a high volume of queries, you can scale up your virtual warehouse to take advantage of extra compute resources.
User-friendly UI/UX
Snowflake’s UI/UX is easy to use and also very feature-rich. It’s easy to find old queries you have run, or even other user queries that are running(depending on your access level).
There are also a whole host of other features that are button clicks away rather than hidden behind settings and configuration drops downs that you may not even know exist. This makes Snowflake very user friendly and I often find that many analysts are finding working with Snowflake very easy.
Reduced Administration Overhead
Cloud services often require less administration overhead because companies don’t need to manage hardware and often can take advantage of scaling. In addition, Snowflake is a SaaS and this means set-up, updates, and general management is mostly managed by Snowflake and not your company.
Much of this management and scaling can be done by anyone with the proper rights without much knowledge in terms of servers, command lines, or coding.
This isn’t to say that you should just quickly click around and switch server sizes. You may find yourself suddenly paying a much higher bill.