Snowflake
columnar data-warehouse
Cloud data warehouse with unique multi-cluster architecture
Pricing Model
Pay-per-use (credits)
Free tier: 400 credits free trial
Supported Languages
Pros and Cons
Ventajas
- + Separate compute and storage scaling
- + Zero-copy cloning for development
- + Native data sharing
- + Pay only for what you use
- + Multi-cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP)
Desventajas
- - Can be expensive at scale
- - Cloud lock-in
- - Requires data warehouse knowledge
Casos de Uso
- Enterprise data warehousing
- Data lake and lakehouse
- BI and analytics
- Data sharing between organizations