Snowflake
The Snowflake Elastic Data Warehouse, 2016 ACM 1 Key Design Snowflake is an enterprise-ready data warehousing solution for the cloud. Cloud promises increased economies of scale, extreme scalability and availability and a pay-as you go cost model — but it can only be captured if the software itself is able to scale elastically over the pool of commodity resources in the cloud. Meanwhile, Saas brings enterprise-class systems to users who previously could not afford them. Snowflake key features includes: relational model, semi-structured data, elastic compute and storage, highly available, durable, cost-efficient and secure. ...