AI engineering glossary · Data engineering
What is snowflake?
Snowflake: A cloud data platform that separates storage from compute, so several independent compute clusters can query the same data. Users work mainly in SQL and pay for storage and compute used.
Snowflake: an example
A finance team and a data science team run queries on separate Snowflake compute clusters over the same tables without slowing each other.
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Where you learn it
Snowflake is part of the AI Engineering Program, which teaches it with notes, a hands-on lab and an exam. The first lesson is free.