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F. Bell et al.Snowflake Essentialshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-7316-6_1

1. The Snowflake Data Cloud

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
 

Snowflake has been one of the most transformative data technologies I’ve come across in my 30-year technology career. Over the last several years, Snowflake has disrupted the big data and analytical relational database management system (RDBMS) industries. The creation of a Software as a Service (SaaS) cloud database ...

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