Snowflake has evolved considerably since it burst onto the scene a handful of years ago as a cloud data warehouse. Founded by engineers experienced in developing analytics databases, the company ...

In addition, Snowflake’s service is capable of taking in both structured and semi-structured data, without requiring users to ensure that it’s all in one format before uploading to the warehouse.

Snowflake was founded by database architects, and it started as a cloud native data warehouse. With a stronger base, it will be easier to provide the core infrastructure and the products that ...

Snowflake began offering its cloud-based Snowflake Elastic Data Warehouse service in June 2015 as an alternative to traditional on-premise data warehouse systems.