We released a new connector to Snowflake, a widely-used platform that’s capable of uniting your data from different cloud infrastructure providers into a single data collection.
Snowflake is great for copying data from multiple cloud platforms—mostly Amazon (AWS), Azure, and Google Cloud Platform—into a single data source.
But wait! Isn’t that what ClicData does?
Yes, it is. But Snowflake specifically targets high volume, enterprise-level data. Now, that comes at a price, of course. But at ClicData, we appreciate what Snowflake can do. Besides, our commitment is to adopt and facilitate the use of any technology for our users. We love Snowflake’s approach, too: “One way to access your data in whichever cloud it resides.” It makes our job—and yours—easier.
That said, with ClicData’s new Snowflake connector, you can get even more benefits from both applications. Let’s dive in.
About Snowflake
Snowflake is a data warehouse built on top of the Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform, or Microsoft Azure cloud infrastructure. There’s no hardware or software to select, install, configure, or manage, so it’s ideal for organizations that don’t want to dedicate resources for setup, maintenance, and support of in-house servers.
You then use tools such as Talend and Informatica to load data into it from your databases, and it provides access to your data using an ANSI SQL.
You might wonder why you need Snowflake and why you wouldn’t just go directly to, say, Amazon AWS and purchase Redshift, DynamoDB, or MySQL?
One reason is that, with Snowflake, you can create a uniform layer between you and the database infrastructure provider (the three big ones, at least). Secondly, Snowflake throws in additional functionality to ensure that storage and queries scale in volume and in performance as needed. You don’t have to master the individual implementations and cloud provider settings and configurations.