Snowflake is a cloud-based data platform offering numerous services to help clients extract the most value from their store data. It’s a software-as-a-service solution that’s flexible, scalable and efficient, saving businesses both time and money with their data analysis.
Snowflake offers the following:
Data engineering
Snowflake ingests, transforms, and delivers data to give insights that are far deeper than other methods. Data engineers spend far less time managing pipeline infrastructure and more time adding value to store data sets through experimentation and analysis.
Data lake
Combine structured, semi-structured and unstructured data from any format and any source, even across clouds and regions, into the Snowflake data lake. Data engineers, data scientists, analysts and developers across organisations can access governed data self-service for a variety of workloads, without resource contention or concurrency issues.
Data warehouse
A safe, secure storage facility that gives clients fast and reliable access to their data. Most importantly for this article, Snowflake’s data warehouse accepts JSON format. Those familiar with Shopify will know that store data from the platform only comes in JSON. Snowflake is one of the only data warehouses to accept this data. Read more on this below.
Data science
Snowflake is a unified, all-in-one data platform that makes it easier to realise the true value of store data. Cross-functional teams can collaborate on scalable data preparation and pipelines, transforming data into actionable business learnings and targets.
Data applications
Businesses can power data applications through the Snowflake data cloud. An SaaS solution, Snowflake will take care of infrastructure details, freeing time and effort for innovation via data applications.
Data sharing
Data sharing is made much easier and happens much faster with Snowflake. It replaces traditional sharing methods, eliminating the need for copying, transforming, and moving data by providing access to everything all in one place.
