Snowflake - Cloud Data Warehouse

Snowflake is a cloud-native data warehouse used by thousands of companies.

Key features:

• Separates compute from storage (scale independently)
• Pay only for what you use
• No infrastructure to manage
• Handles massive datasets

Snowflake SQL is ANSI-standard with extensions:

• FLATTEN() - expands JSON arrays
• VARIANT - stores semi-structured data
• Time Travel - query historical data
• Zero-copy cloning

Common at: Netflix, DoorDash, Capital One, and many startups.

Your SQL skills transfer directly to Snowflake!