Snowflake is a cloud-based data warehousing platform that provides fully managed and scalable solutions for storing and analysing data. It enables data storage, processing, and analytics at a faster pace with an easy-to-use interface.
Snowflake is an OLAP platform, its architecture efficiently handles OLAP operations helping in data analytics, reporting, and other BI tasks.
Snowflake Architecture
BigQuery and Redshift are some popular alternatives to Snowflake. Snowflake is designed to handle large volumes of data and support complex analytical queries.
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