DBMS > Snowflake

Snowflake System Properties

Please select another system to compare it with Snowflake.

Our visitors often compare Snowflake with Databricks, Amazon Redshift and Oracle.

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines

Name

Description

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	174.49
Rank	#6	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2014

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.

Server operating systems

hosted

Data scheme

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

More information provided by the system vendor

We invite representatives of system vendors to contact us for updating and extending the system information,
and for displaying vendor-provided information such as key customers, competitive advantages and market metrics.

Related products and services

We invite representatives of vendors of related products to contact us for presenting information about their offerings here.

More resources

DB-Engines blog posts

DB-Engines shares Q1 2025 database industry rankings and top climbers: Snowflake and PostgreSQL trending
1 May 2025, DB-Engines

Snowflake is the Database Management System of the Year 2024
16 January 2025, Tom Russell

Snowflake is the DBMS of the Year 2022, defending the title from last year
3 January 2023, Matthias Gelbmann, Paul Andlinger

show all

Recent citations in the news

NiCE & Snowflake Integrate to Streamline CX Data Analytics
16 June 2025, CMSWire.com

Virtual Hands-on Lab: Building and Deploying Data Apps Using Python on Snowflake
11 June 2025, snowflake.com

The Trade Desk Introduces A Native App On Snowflake For Retail Conversion Data
12 June 2025, AdExchanger

NiCE CXone Mpower Builds on Snowflake AI Data Cloud to Unlock Secure, Scalable CX Automation Across the Front, Middle and Back Office
16 June 2025, Yahoo Finance

Can Acxiom and Snowflake break the data black box where others failed?
16 June 2025, Marketing Dive

provided by Google News

Share this page