Data architecture - Product
Snowflake
A cloud platform for storing, combining and analysing large amounts of organisational data
What's it for?
Brings large amounts of business data together online so teams can analyse and share it.
For example…
A company loads sales and customer data into Snowflake so analysts can query large datasets without running the reporting workload on operational systems
Two business units share governed datasets through Snowflake while keeping compute workloads separate
Think of it like…
Snowflake is a cloud data platform that separates storage and compute so teams can scale queries without resizing everything
Often confused with…
- DatabricksA cloud platform for processing, analysing and building AI from large amounts of data
- Microsoft FabricMicrosoft unified analytics platform spanning data integration, warehousing and BI
- Azure Synapse AnalyticsMicrosoft analytics service combining data warehousing, data integration and large-scale data processing