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Key Concepts & Architecture | Snowflake Documentation

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Snowflake’s Data Cloud is powered by an advanced data platform provided as a self-managed service. Snowflake enables data storage, processing, and analytic solutions that are faster, easier to use, and far more flexible than traditional offerings. The Snowflake data platform is not built on any existing database technology or “big data” software platforms such as Hadoop. Instead, Snowflake combines a completely new SQL query engine with an innovative architecture natively designed for the cloud. To the user, Snowflake provides all of the functionality of an enterprise analytic database, along with many additional special features and unique capabilities. Snowflake is a true self-managed service, meaning: There is no hardware (virtual or physical) to select, install, configure, or manage. There is virtually no software to install, configure, or manage. Ongoing maintenance, management, upgrades, and tuning are handled by Snowflake. Snowflake runs completely on cloud infrastructure. All c

Snowflake key concepts and architecture ¶ Snowflake is powered by an advanced data platform that is provided to you as a self-managed service. Snowflake’s data platform brings together data storage, processing, and analytic solutions that are faster, easier to use, and far more flexible than traditional offerings. Snowflake combines a completely new SQL query engine with an innovative architecture that is natively designed for the cloud. It offers full enterprise analytic database functionality, and unique features and capabilities. Data platform as a self-managed service ¶ As a self-managed s

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