Snowflake
Snowflake - Function
Snowflake Function API to create and manage user‑defined functions for custom computations beyond standard SQL.
Description
Function - Defines the creation and management processes for user-defined functions, enabling custom computations. Use Case: Developers can implement business-specific calculations not available in standard SQL functions.
Snowflake is a cloud-native data platform that provides data warehousing, data lake, and data sharing capabilities. It runs fully managed on AWS, Azure, and GCP, with a clear separation of compute (warehouses) and storage, enabling workloads to scale independently.
Key features:
- Elastic compute & storage scaling
- Support for structured, semi-structured (JSON, Avro, Parquet), and unstructured data
- Secure data sharing & marketplace
- Built-in governance, access control, and auditing