What is Snowflake technology?
Considering this, what is a snowflake database?
Snowflake is an analytic data warehouse provided as Software-as-a-Service (SaaS). Snowflake's data warehouse is not built on an existing database or “big data” software platform such as Hadoop. The Snowflake data warehouse uses a new SQL database engine with a unique architecture designed for the cloud.
Accordingly, what is snowflake in AWS?
Snowflake on Amazon Web Services (AWS) represents a SQL AWS data warehouse built for the cloud. Snowflake's unique architecture natively handles diverse data in a single system, with the elasticity to support any scale of data, workload, and users.
We have found 295 companies that use Snowflake. The companies using Snowflake are most often found in United States and in the Computer Software industry.
Top Industries that use Snowflake.
Industry | Number of companies |
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Nonprofit Organization Management | 5 |
Insurance | 4 |
Internet | 4 |
Wholesale | 3 |