Paper Notes: The Snowflake Elastic Data Warehouse

The Snowflake Elastic Data Warehouse, 2016 ACM 1 Key Design Snowflake is an enterprise-ready data warehousing solution for the cloud . Cloud promises increased economies of scale, extreme scalability and availability and a pay-as you go cost model — but it can only be captured if the software itself is able to scale elastically over the pool of commodity resources in the cloud. Meanwhile, Saas…