Snowflake is a cloud data platform for warehousing, analytics, and data sharing that separates storage from compute so each can scale independently. It targets organizations consolidating data from many sources for large-scale analytics, with auto-suspend giving it serverless-like behavior. Snowflake runs across AWS, GCP, and Azure, making it multi-cloud, but it is a proprietary managed service rather than open-source or self-hostable. Pricing is credit and consumption based, placing it in the premium tier, with a 30-day trial rather than a perpetual free tier. It carries SOC2, ISO27001, FedRAMP, HIPAA, and PCI-DSS compliance.
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Overview
- Founded
- 2012
- Pricing tier
- High
- Startup-friendly
- Yes
- Enterprise-ready
- Yes
Data warehouse
- Free tier
- No
- Serverless
- Yes
- Separates storage & compute
- Yes
- Open-source
- No
- Self-hostable
- No
- Multi-cloud
- Yes