Snowflake Architecture: Scaling the Data Warehouse for the Cloud

The rise of the public cloud changed system architecture forever. In this talk, we will cover how the three pillars of the architecture allow the Snowflake system to scale analytic workloads and became foundational attributes of the Data Cloud. Scaling analytic workload on the data cloud requires an architecture separating compute and storage to leverage abundant cloud compute resources; building an ACID compliant database system on immutable storage to guarantee consistency; and delivering a scalable multi-tenant system as an easy to use and reliable service. To move beyond analytic and offer a global programmable data application platform, the architecture evolved to offer secured global user collaboration around shared data and embraced different programmatic models.

Speaker: Thierry Cruanes, Co-Founder and CTO of Snowflake Computing