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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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11,151 Flux: Decoupled Auto-Scaling for Heterogeneous Query Workload in Alibaba AnalyticDB 2024 SIGMOD 5.093636e-05
11,153 Native Cloud Object Storage in Db2 Warehouse: Implementing a Fast and Cost-Efficient Cloud Storage Architecture 2024 SIGMOD 5.093636e-05
11,201 Live Patching for Distributed In-Memory Key-Value Stores 2024 SIGMOD 5.093636e-05
11,235 SplitDF: Splitting Dataframes for Memory-Efficient Data Analysis 2024 VLDB 5.093636e-05
11,264 Agile-Ant: Self-managing Distributed Cache Management for Cost Optimization of Big Data Applications 2024 VLDB 5.093636e-05
11,333 The Case for DBMS Live Patching 2024 VLDB 5.093636e-05
11,356 Zed: Leveraging Data Types to Process Eclectic Data 2023 CIDR 5.093636e-05
11,418 Efficient Approximation Framework for Attribute Recommendation 2023 SIGMOD 5.093636e-05
11,587 CDI-E: An Elastic Cloud Service for Data Engineering 2022 VLDB 5.093636e-05
11,784 A Framework for Emulating Database Operations in Cloud Data Warehouses 2020 SIGMOD 5.093636e-05
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Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 14 of 14 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank Cited Paper Year Venue Pagerank
14 MonetDB/X100: Hyper-Pipelining Query Execution 2005 CIDR 0.0006312782
23 Efficiently Compiling Efficient Query Plans for Modern Hardware 2011 VLDB 0.00054886415
44 A Comparison of Approaches to Large-Scale Data Analysis 2009 SIGMOD 0.00046055057
49 Weaving Relations for Cache Performance 2001 VLDB 0.00043781096
51 Dremel: Interactive Analysis of Web-Scale Datasets 2010 VLDB 0.0004291425
227 Small Materialized Aggregates: A Light Weight Index Structure for Data Warehousing 1998 VLDB 0.00023958508
237 Amazon Redshift and the Case for Simpler Data Warehouses 2015 SIGMOD 0.0002369895
245 Serializable Isolation for Snapshot Databases 2008 SIGMOD 0.00023458287
345 Column-Stores vs. Row-Stores: How Different Are They Really? 2008 SIGMOD 0.00020656723
721 Database Architecture Evolution: Mammals Flourished long before Dinosaurs became Extinct 2009 VLDB 0.00014631814
895 Runtime Measurements in the Cloud: Observing, Analyzing, and Reducing Variance 2010 VLDB 0.00013357681
1,015 AsterixDB: A Scalable, Open Source BDMS 2014 VLDB 0.00012647763
1,044 Fine-grained Partitioning for Aggressive Data Skipping 2014 SIGMOD 0.0001244236
1,739 Split Query Processing in Polybase 2013 SIGMOD 9.8814935e-05
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