As businesses continue to generate vast amounts of data, it’s becoming increasingly essential to have a reliable and efficient way to manage and collaborate.
Enter Snowflake – the single, global platform that powers the Data Cloud. With its unique design, Snowflake is uniquely positioned to connect businesses globally, across any type or scale of data and workloads, and unlock seamless data collaboration.
Data science experts at RIA recommend Snowflake as the ultimate solution for businesses looking to streamline their data management processes.
Are you looking for a one-stop shop for all your data needs? Look no further than Snowflake – the single, global platform that mobilizes your data, powers essential workloads, and unlocks seamless collaboration.
A Snowflake account can be hosted on any of the following cloud platforms:
- Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
- Microsoft Azure (Azure)
Pricing
Example for AWS hosting in EU-Ireland region (April 2023)
Data Cloud Features
Get ready to experience the power of the Data Cloud! Snowflake offers a range of incredible features that will transform how you handle your data. Here’s a quick rundown of what you can expect:
- Fully Managed Service: With Snowflake, you won’t have to worry about maintaining or configuring your infrastructure. It’s a fully managed service, meaning that Snowflake takes care of everything for you, so you can focus on what matters most – your data.
- Unlimited Concurrency: Snowflake can handle unlimited workloads simultaneously, providing you with maximum concurrency and ensuring that your data queries always run smoothly.
- Fast Elasticity: As your data needs change, Snowflake can quickly adapt and scale to accommodate your workload. This fast elasticity ensures that your queries run quickly, no matter how much data you deal with.
- High Availability: Snowflake guarantees 99.9% availability, meaning that your data is always accessible and ready to use whenever needed.
- Comprehensive Security: With Snowflake, you can rest assured that your data is secure. Snowflake provides end-to-end encryption, multi-factor authentication, and other security features to ensure your data is always protected.
With these features and more, Snowflake is the ultimate solution for all your data needs.
The Platform
Prepare to unleash the full potential of your data with Snowflake’s cutting-edge platform:
- Snowgrid: Discover and share governed data between teams, business units, partners, customers, and more, all without the need for ETL. Enjoy business continuity with cross-cloud and cross-region replication and failover.
- Virtual Private Snowflake: Set up a customer-dedicated Snowflake VPC with encrypted communication between load balancers, cloud services, and virtual warehouses for maximum security.
- Adaptive Caching: The active working set is transparently cached on the virtual warehouse SSD, and result sets are cached for reuse without requiring computing.
- Optimized storage: Centralize unstructured, semi-structured, and structured data together for unlimited access to all your needed data. Enjoy features like compression, automatic micro-partitioning, ACID compliance, and Time Travel.
- Marketplace: Find, try, and buy the data and applications you need to power innovative business solutions. Data-driven business leaders can enhance internal data with third-party data products to inform decisions and drive innovations. With hundreds of worldwide partners available, the possibilities are endless.
- Snowpark:
- Performant, elastic, and secure data processing in Snowflake using your language of choice – whether it’s Python, Java, or Scala.
- Enjoy features like the Dataframe API, User-Defined Fields, and Stored Procedures for even more flexibility.
Ecosystem
Client implementation/use case
We implemented Snowflake on AWS for a client project to manage their data storage, transformations, and reporting. They needed a solution that could store their data and provide fast and reliable data transformations, optimizations, and reporting.
We ingested data from various sources, such as webhooks, AWS IoT Core, and S3 buckets, and then stored the data in Snowflake. Our team organized the data into different zones or databases/schemas to streamline processing stages between development and production.
We used Airflow (AWS), Matillion ETL, and dbt Labs for data transformations. These tools allowed us to automate their data transformations and make them more efficient. We also used Sisense and custom apps/dashboards/widgets for reporting and data visualization. The tools helped us to create customized and interactive reports that provided valuable insights.
By leveraging Snowflake and its partner tools, we managed and transformed large volumes of data quickly and efficiently. We provided customized solutions that met our client’s specific needs, and Snowflake’s scalability and efficiency allowed us to handle even the largest data volumes.
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By embracing the latest technologies and tools, RIA has been able to stay ahead of the curve and continue to provide innovative solutions to their clients.
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Marian Veres
Senior Software Developer and Team Lead at RIA Solutions Group
