Snowflake Cloud Data Warehouse Architecture

What is Snowflake Cloud Data Warehouse?

The Snowflake Cloud Data Warehouse is a professionally operated, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) or Database-as-a-Service (Database-as-a-Service) .This cloud data warehouse open to customers. The term ‘completely operated’ implies that users need not care about any of the back-end work such as installing the server, maintenance, etc. You can easily deploy a Snowflake data warehouse instance on any of the three major cloud providers.

  • Amazon Web Services (AWS)
  • Microsoft Azure
  • Google Cloud Platform

Gartner has released its 2019 report, “Magic Quadrant for Data Management Solutions for Analytics.” Snowflake is proud to announce its position as a Leader.

Snowflake Architecture:

Snowflake will give us easy & flexible solution for business requirements. As it offers SaaS. Snowflake uses virtual compute instances for its compute needs and a storage service for persistent storage of data. Snowflake cannot be run on private cloud infrastructures (on-premises or hosted).

  • There is no hardware for you to pick, mount, configure, or control (virtual or physical).
  • No need of software for you to install, configure, or manage.
  • Management, tuning & Maintains will be handled by Snowflake.

Snowflake consists of three key layers:

Database Storage

Query Processing

Cloud Services

Database Storage: Snowflake manages all aspects of how this information is stored: Snowflake handles the organization, file size, structure, compression, metadata, statistics, and other aspects of data storage. The data objects stored by Snowflake are not directly visible or available to customers; they can only be accessed using Snowflake via SQL query operations.

Query Processing: In the processing layer, query execution is performed. Using’ virtual warehouses’, Snowflake processes queries.

Cloud Services: The cloud services layer also runs on compute instances provisioned by Snowflake from the cloud provider.

Connecting to Snowflake: It supports many ways of connecting to the services. Like JDBC, ODBC, PYTHON, SnowSQL

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