Here are the significant features of Snowflake that make it a dominant Data Cloud Platform:
1. Single Source of Truth
Migrating from a legacy data warehouse to the Snowflake cloud platform helps companies to unify, integrate, and analyse siloed data from disparate sources – to a single source of data truth.
2. Data Network Effect
Organisations can achieve network effect and scale their business by moving siloed data from cloud-based repositories and on-premises data warehouses to Snowflake.
As more users adopt the Snowflake Data exchange platform, it becomes valuable and attracts more consumers and vendors which in turn pulls more users onto the Snowflake platform creating a network effect.
3. Multi-cluster Warehouses
Traditional databases, even the ones deployed to the cloud, have fixed storage capacity. So, organizations with cloud deployed solutions often run into concurrency issues. Snowflake’s cloud architecture allows complete separation of compute from storage with multi-cluster warehouses.
Configuring a multi-cluster warehouse automatically adds separate clusters and drops them to support concurrency.
4. Secure Data Sharing
Traditional way of sharing data is very inefficient. Data is siloed across different databases, data warehouses and systems. However, Snowflake’s data sharing architecture eliminates the complexity of sharing data, allowing you to share live, ready-to-query data across regions and cloud platforms (like AWS, Microsoft Azure etc.) - without ETL. With thousands of ETL pipelines built over the years, companies often face the obstacle of translating ETL code to Snowflake. Learn how you can automate migration and run ETL pipelines natively in Snowflake using Snowpark, Snowflake’s developer tool.
In closing, these are not the only features that make Snowflake transcend beyond cloud data warehouses, but are the features draw organisations to select the Snowflake Data Cloud platform.
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