Snowflake - Warehouse
Snowflake warehouse: on‑demand compute cluster for queries, loading, and DML; start, stop, and scale anytime.
Description
Warehouse - Defines the management of virtual warehouses that allocate and optimize compute resources. Organizations can dynamically adjust compute resources based on workload demands, ensuring efficiency.
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