August 2022
Intermediate to advanced
465 pages
12h 20m
English
Content preview from Snowflake: The Definitive Guide
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Chapter 1. Getting Started
Cloud computing is characterized by on-demand availability of data storage and computing power. A primary benefit of cloud computing is that it doesn’t require users to be directly or actively involved in the management of those computer system resources. Other benefits include access to unlimited storage capacity, automatic software updates, instant scalability, high speed, and cost reductions. As expected, the recent explosion of cloud computing led by AWS Redshift, Google BigQuery, and Microsoft Azure Data Warehouse resulted in the decline of on-premises data centers.
Many of the major data warehouse providers, such as Oracle and IBM, that were created as a traditionally hosted solution later adapted to the cloud environment. Unlike those traditional solutions, Snowflake was built natively for the cloud from the ground up. While Snowflake originated as a disruptive cloud data warehouse, it has evolved over time, and today it is far more than an innovative modern data warehouse.
Along the way, Snowflake earned some impressive recognition. Snowflake won first place at the 2015 Strata + Hadoop World startup competition and was named a “Cool Vendor” in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant 2015 DBMS report. In 2019, Snowflake was listed as number 2 on Forbes magazine’s Cloud 100 list and was ranked number 1 on LinkedIn’s U.S. list of Top Startups. On September 16, 2020, Snowflake became the largest software initial public offering (IPO) in history.
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