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SnowPro Core Certification Study Guide
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Snowflake’s architecture is designed to leverage the cloud for optimal flexibility, scalability, and performance. Unlike traditional data warehousing systems, Snowflake uses a unique multi-cluster, shared-data architecture that separates storage, compute, and services. This chapter focuses primarily on Snowflake’s architecture and key features and equips you to answer questions related to architecture, object hierarchy, and some features that make Snowflake a popular choice among companies.
This chapter discusses the Snowflake data cloud and its architecture. It also covers Snowflake’s distinguishing features compared to other available data platforms. Snowflake’s three-layer architecture makes it a unique SaaS offering with independent storage and computing. You’ll learn about the tools and interfaces used to connect to Snowflake and explore Snowflake’s object hierarchy and how Snowflake stores...