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SNOWFLAKE FOR DATA LAKES

Improve data access, performance, and security with a modern data lake strategy

Enable rapid data access, query performance, and data transformation, while capitalizing on Snowflake’s built-in data governance and security.

Snowflake provides the most flexible solution to enable or enhance your data lake strategy, with a cloud-built architecture that meets your unique needs. Mix and match components of data lake design patterns and unleash the full potential of your data.

Exceptional Query Performance

Make virtually all of your organization’s data available to a near-unlimited number of users. Enable efficient data exploration, with instant and near-infinite scalability and concurrency.

Integrated and Extensible Data Pipelines

Streamline data pipeline development for optimized performance. Rely on pipelines scaling reliably and in real time to handle heavy data workloads and extensible data transformations to suit your unique needs.

Secure, Governed Collaboration

Capitalize on Snowflake functionality to meet governance and security standards for collaborative data preparation, exploration, and analytics no matter where your data resides.

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HOW SNOWFLAKE ENABLES YOUR DATA LAKE

Run Fast Queries On Top of Your Data Lake

Snowflake enables your data users to execute a near-unlimited number of concurrent queries against your data lake without impacting performance.

Use external tables to directly query data in your data lake without having to move data.
Increase query performance by using materialized views over external tables
Synchronize external tables with Apache Hive metastore
Automatically register new files from your data lake with partition auto-refresh
Accelerate data exploration with Snowsight, the built-in visualization UI for Snowflake

Easily Transform All Your Data

Build and run integrated, performant and extensible data pipelines with Snowflake to process virtually all your data, and easily unload the data back into your data lake.

Deploy a modern architecture and pipelines for data processing that requires near-zero maintenance
Auto ingest data and enable change data capture (CDC) with continuous data pipelines, using Snowpipe, and Streams & Tasks
Transform data efficiently with ANSI SQL
Extend your pipelines with external functions and stored procedures
Scale up or down instantly to optimize pipeline performance
Build resilient data pipelines with variant data types and different ingestion styles

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Capitalize on Built-In Security and Governance

Snowflake helps ensure data governance and security even when data remains in your existing cloud data lake.

Provide granular-level access control for precise accessibility
Enable fine-grained security, such as column-level masking and row-level filtering
Work with data but without revealing confidential information thanks to data masking and external tokenization
Enable modern data collaboration with internal and external stakeholders via live, secure data sharing

Make Snowflake Your Data Lake

The Snowflake Data Cloud can address multiple use cases to meet your data lake needs.

Store your data with efficient data compression.
Unify your technology landscape with a single platform for many types of data workloads, eliminating the need for different services and infrastructures.
Provide one copy of your data – a single source of truth – to all your data users.
Focus on data thanks to Snowflake’s fully managed service for storage allocation, capacity planning, concurrency, and much more.
Enable any data user to access and analyze data in your modern lake, while maintaining end-to-end governance and security.