Snowflake

Snowflake is a cloud-native analytics data platform. In the context of enable data union , Snowflake is the database platform that stores the edu data warehouse.

Snowflake has many features that make it useful as an analytics data warehouse-- it's fast for analytics queries, uses a pay-what-you-use cost model, and has many features that reduce the burden of maintenance and database administration. Snowflake offers a web interface and light BI tool to query and interact with data. A user can also connect to a Snowflake database like any other database via database query editors or other BI tools.

Snowflake offers free trials but a production deployment will require purchasing Snowflake credits. Cost is mostly dependent on the amount of computation resources used. If you have questions about cost please contact us at edu@edanalytics.org.