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Snowflake

Snowflake is a cloud data platform used as a data warehouse, with storage and compute scaled separately.

Written by Reflective Data experts · updated Oct 5, 2026

It runs on the major clouds, supports structured and semi-structured data and offers sharing, governance and developer features on top of SQL.

Teams like its ease of use and elasticity. Cost control requires attention to warehouse sizing and query patterns.

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