Snowflake is fast because it leverages the power and scalability of the cloud to provide powerful data warehousing solutions. Some of the reasons Snowflake is fast are:
It features a unique architecture that separates the storage and compute layers, allowing users to scale independently and pay only for the resources they use.
Supports multiple virtual warehouses that can run independent workloads concurrently against the same data without contention or performance degradation.
There are different levels of caching that improve query performance by reusing data and results from previous queries.
You'll see some performance improvements that optimize query execution, speeding up queries, removing joins, optimizing searches, and selecting top-K order.
Transparent and flexible pricing allows users to optimize the costs and benefits of their workloads.
