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Snowflake architecture overview

Snowflake architecture overview - Snowflake Tutorial

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Snowflake architecture overview

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- Now that we've covered many of the core Snowflake objects, I think we're ready to zoom out for a moment and talk about the overall Snowflake architecture. This video will differ a little bit from the others in that we'll mostly go over slides that will help us visualize the different parts of Snowflake's architecture. But don't worry, it's worth it. Maybe you'll even finish this video feeling like you just saw a picture of Earth from space for the first time. If you get even 10% of the way to that level of awe, I'll take it. Okay, so here are the critical things to know about Snowflake's architecture. First off, it is four layers, as you can see here. Optimized storage, elastic multi-cluster compute, cloud services, and Snowgrid. You'll notice that storage is separated from compute, which is something Snowflake pioneered. For people who have been in the data world for a while, this is a really big deal and will probably never stop feeling like a big deal. When I was a kid, my family…

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