Snowflake — Key Benefits and Offerings

The article discusses the key benefits and offerings of Snowflake.

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Overview

Snowflake started as the cloud based data warehouse in 2014 and has evolved into an end to end data solution provider, since then. It can be defined as —

A fully managed, software as a service for data warehousing, data lakes, data engineering, data science, data application development, and for securely sharing and consuming shared data.

Because of its promising set of data solutions, it is listed as one of the leading technologies in the technology radar by thoughtworks. In this article, I will take a deeper dive into the benefits it brings on the table.

Supports Multiple Data Oriented Use Cases

One of the USP(unique selling points) of Snowflake is that it provides one stop shop for a variety of data oriented use cases. Here is the list —

• Data Warehouse is the top in the list, where you can analyze large data sets, on-demand. No need to worry about the hardware, software as it’s auto-managed. It is fully compatible with SQL and provides direct connectors for almost all the popular BI tools. You can also use Snowsight, the built-in visualization UI to access the charts and…