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3. Snowflake Data Cloud Architecture

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
 

This chapter will cover the essentials of the Snowflake Data Cloud architecture that has made Snowflake widely popular. This hybrid architecture provides Snowflake with ease of use as well as fast and scalable performance. When the founders decided to build a new relational database completely based on the cloud, ...

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