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The Snowflake Elastic Data Warehouse

Summary: Cloud-native, multi-cluster, shared-data warehouse with elastic compute and decoupled storage. Semi-structured data support, schema-less workloads, time travel, and end-to-end security in a pay-as-you-go AWS SaaS with full SQL and immediate data upload. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
5262
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
2016
Pagerank
0.00038561587
Overall Rank
66 | 99.55%
DOI
10.1145/2882903.2903741

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BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{dageville_sigmod16,
        title = {{The Snowflake Elastic Data Warehouse}},
        author = {Dageville, Benoit and Cruanes, Thierry and Zukowski, Marcin and Antonov, Vadim and Avanes, Artin and Bock, Jon and Claybaugh, Jonathan and Engovatov, Daniel and Hentschel, Martin and Huang, Jiansheng and Lee, Allison W. and Motivala, Ashish and Munir, Abdul Q. and Pelley, Steven and Povinec, Peter and Rahn, Greg and Triantafyllis, Spyridon and Unterbrunner, Philipp},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '16},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/2882903.2903741},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2882903.2903741},
        year = {2016}
}

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5,477 PolarDB-IMCI: A Cloud-Native HTAP Database System at Alibaba 2023 SIGMOD 6.2051869e-05
5,705 Cornus: Atomic Commit for a Cloud DBMS with Storage Disaggregation 2023 VLDB 6.1145567e-05
5,761 Rel: A Programming Language for Relational Data 2025 SIGMOD 6.0957569e-05
5,805 Diva: Making MVCC Systems HTAP-Friendly 2022 SIGMOD 6.0822211e-05
5,983 Adaptive and Robust Query Execution for Lakehouses at Scale 2024 VLDB 6.0206841e-05
6,386 Operon: An Encrypted Database for Ownership-Preserving Data Management 2022 VLDB 5.8899805e-05
6,407 Shared Foundations: Modernizing Meta's Data Lakehouse 2023 CIDR 5.8850639e-05
6,481 MotherDuck: DuckDB in the cloud and in the client 2024 CIDR 5.8669399e-05
6,602 Predicate Caching: Query-Driven Secondary Indexing for Cloud Data Warehouses 2024 SIGMOD 5.8246665e-05
6,628 ConnectorX: Accelerating Data Loading From Databases to Dataframes 2022 VLDB 5.8197537e-05
6,907 Statisticum: Data Statistics Management in SAP HANA 2017 VLDB 5.7417459e-05
6,939 Multi-Tenant Cloud Data Services: State-of-the-Art, Challenges and Opportunities 2022 SIGMOD 5.7338637e-05
7,024 Yellowbrick: An Elastic Data Warehouse on Kubernetes 2024 CIDR 5.7236842e-05
7,055 Unified Query Optimization in the Fabric Data Warehouse 2024 SIGMOD 5.7170734e-05
7,072 Two Birds With One Stone: Designing a Hybrid Cloud Storage Engine for HTAP 2024 VLDB 5.7107965e-05
7,139 Selection Pushdown in Column Stores using Bit Manipulation Instructions 2023 SIGMOD 5.6932481e-05
7,160 DAPHNE: An Open and Extensible System Infrastructure for Integrated Data Analysis Pipelines 2022 CIDR 5.6855887e-05
7,285 Bullion: A Column Store for Machine Learning 2025 CIDR 5.6559604e-05
7,341 Understanding the Performance Implications of the Design Principles in Storage-Disaggregated Databases 2024 SIGMOD 5.6390976e-05
7,469 Optimizing Collections of Bloom Filters within a Space Budget 2024 VLDB 5.609743e-05
7,560 Cackle: Analytical Workload Cost and Performance Stability With Elastic Pools 2023 SIGMOD 5.5984517e-05
7,589 Cost-Intelligent Data Analytics in the Cloud 2024 CIDR 5.5907048e-05
7,604 Hardware Acceleration of Compression and Encryption in SAP HANA 2022 VLDB 5.5853563e-05
7,660 Pruning in Snowflake: Working Smarter, Not Harder 2025 SIGMOD 5.5736132e-05
7,672 Pivotal Greenplum for Kubernetes: Demonstration of Managing Greenplum Database on Kubernetes 2019 SIGMOD 5.5706096e-05
7,684 Deep Lake: a Lakehouse for Deep Learning 2023 CIDR 5.5679986e-05
7,686 TDSQL: Tencent Distributed Database System 2024 VLDB 5.5676271e-05
7,755 Blueprinting the Cloud: Unifying and Automatically Optimizing Cloud Data Infrastructures with BRAD 2024 VLDB 5.5519655e-05
7,780 Petabyte-Scale Row-Level Operations in Data Lakehouses 2024 VLDB 5.5457298e-05
7,802 Cloud-Native Database Systems and Unikernels: Reimagining OS Abstractions for Modern Hardware 2024 VLDB 5.5418836e-05
7,826 AlayaDB: The Data Foundation for Efficient and Effective Long-context LLM Inference 2025 SIGMOD 5.53654e-05
7,873 GaussDB: A Cloud-Native Multi-Primary Database with Compute-Memory-Storage Disaggregation 2024 VLDB 5.5257163e-05
7,901 Cloud Databases: New Techniques, Challenges, and Opportunities 2022 VLDB 5.5185913e-05
7,915 Krypton: Real-time Serving and Analytical SQL Engine at ByteDance 2023 VLDB 5.5181056e-05
7,959 Terabyte-Scale Analytics in the Blink of an Eye 2026 VLDB 5.5181056e-05
8,418 Starry: Multi-master Transaction Processing on Semi-leader Architecture 2023 VLDB 5.4283265e-05
8,439 New Query Optimization Techniques in the Spark Engine of Azure Synapse 2022 VLDB 5.4248071e-05
8,450 Not Black-Box Anymore! Enabling Analytics-Aware Optimizations in Teradata Vantage 2021 VLDB 5.4231788e-05
8,494 POLAR: Adaptive and Non-invasive Join Order Selection via Plans of Least Resistance 2024 VLDB 5.4142129e-05
8,510 Sigma Workbook: A Spreadsheet for Cloud Data Warehouses 2022 VLDB 5.4119882e-05
8,708 Extending Polaris to Support Transactions 2024 SIGMOD 5.3794896e-05
8,785 Tao: Improving Resource Utilization while Guaranteeing SLO in Multi-tenant Relational Database-as-a-Service 2024 SIGMOD 5.3735061e-05
8,798 GEqO: ML-Accelerated Semantic Equivalence Detection 2023 SIGMOD 5.3698781e-05
8,846 Workload Insights From The Snowflake Data Cloud: What Do Production Analytic Queries Really Look Like? 2025 VLDB 5.3580184e-05
8,849 ByteCard: Enhancing ByteDance’s Data Warehouse with Learned Cardinality Estimation 2024 SIGMOD 5.3577504e-05
8,868 SemBench: A Benchmark for Semantic Query Processing Engines 2026 VLDB 5.3546848e-05
8,887 A Model for Query Execution Over Heterogeneous Instances 2024 CIDR 5.3512451e-05
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