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2. Snowflake

Ron L’Esteve1  
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Chicago, IL, USA
 

Snowflake, a modern cloud data warehouse platform, provides a number of capabilities including the ability to scale storage and compute independently, data sharing through a Data Marketplace, seamless integration with custom-built applications, batch and streaming ELT capabilities, complex data manipulation functions and features, and more. These capabilities make Snowflake a strong complementary choice during the design and implementation of the Lakehouse paradigm since it offers unique capabilities which include reasonably ...

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