Snowflake Data Cloud Architecture
Frank Bell, Raj Chirumamilla, Bhaskar B. Joshi, Bjorn Lindstrom, Ruchi Soni, Sameer Videkar · Apress eBooks · 2021
This chapter will cover the essentials of the Snowflake Data Cloud architecture that has made Snowflake widely popular. This hybrid architecture provides Snowflake with ease of use as well as fast and scalable performance. When the founders decided to build a new relational database completely based on the cloud, they were able to create architectural advantages beyond existing database architectures. One of the key architectural beliefs they were founded on was that tying storage to compute created challenges with scaling on the cloud.