Snowflake
A cloud data warehouse that separates storage from compute, so teams scale each on its own. See how developers rate it month by month on DTDb.
- Category
- database engine
- Developer
- Snowflake Inc.
- Created by
- Benoît Dageville, Thierry Cruanes, Marcin Żukowski
- First release
- 2014
- License
- Proprietary
- Open source
- No
- Pricing
- Paid
- Website
- https://www.snowflake.com
- Written in
- C++
- Data model
- Relational
- Storage layout
- Column-oriented
- Workload
- Analytics (OLAP)
- Analytics architecture
- Data warehouse
- Query language
- SQL
- ACID transactions
- Yes
- Schema
- Strict
- Deployment
- Managed cloud
- Scaling
- Natively distributed
- Create, read, update, delete
- Create: fast (Bulk loads and streaming ingest); Read: fast (Fast scans over huge tables); Update: moderate (Rewrites micro-partitions); Delete: moderate (Rewrites micro-partitions)