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10. How Snowflake Compute Works

Frank Bell1  , Raj Chirumamilla2, Bhaskar B. Joshi3, Bjorn Lindstrom4, Ruchi Soni5 and Sameer Videkar6
(1)
Encino, USA
(2)
Monmouth Jct, USA
(3)
Bethesda, MD, USA
(4)
Eatonville, USA
(5)
New Delhi, Delhi, India
(6)
Magdeburg, Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany
 

In this chapter, we will cover how compute works within the Snowflake Data Cloud with Snowflake’s compute warehouses. As mentioned previously, the separation of compute from storage was a key architectural foundation of the Snowflake Data Cloud. When Snowflake was founded back in 2012, this was an entirely revolutionary ...

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