Information about Snowflake

Snowflake is a cloud-based data warehousing platform to store and manage large amounts of data in so-called "data warehouses".

A data warehouse is a centralized, cloud-based repository where organisations can store structured and semi-structured data in a denormalized data structure. It is required for queries and DML operations, and consumes Snowflake credits according to the size and active time.

In these warehouses are schemas, which are groups of related objects, for example a schema for "Sales" and one for "Marketing" in the same database. There are namespace conventions in place to avoid naming conflicts, such as "sales.orders" and "marketing.orders". In a schema there are tables, views, stored procedures and stages.

Each schema can have specific users and role permissions, ensuring data security. Inside a database schemas provide logical isolation.

For more information about the technical side of Snowflake, you can visit the Documentation page under Snowflake Documentation.

For more information about Snowflake in general and other services it can provide, visit the main page und Snowflake Homepage.