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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
h3dddec61e3e07858
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
2016
Pagerank
0.00041439488
Overall Rank
52 | 99.66%
DOI
10.1145/2882903.2903741

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Authors

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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4,999 Using Cloud Functions as Accelerator for Elastic Data Analytics 2023 SIGMOD 6.3086259e-05
5,126 Steering Query Optimizers: A Practical Take on Big Data Workloads 2021 SIGMOD 6.2493606e-05
5,192 PolarDB-IMCI: A Cloud-Native HTAP Database System at Alibaba 2023 SIGMOD 6.2209024e-05
5,210 Crystal: A Unified Cache Storage System for Analytical Databases 2021 VLDB 6.2142008e-05
5,367 Adaptive and Robust Query Execution for Lakehouses at Scale 2024 VLDB 6.1462017e-05
5,788 Diva: Making MVCC Systems HTAP-Friendly 2022 SIGMOD 5.9763511e-05
5,821 Cornus: Atomic Commit for a Cloud DBMS with Storage Disaggregation 2023 VLDB 5.9660099e-05
5,896 Unified Query Optimization in the Fabric Data Warehouse 2024 SIGMOD 5.9383626e-05
6,003 Terabyte-Scale Analytics in the Blink of an Eye 2026 VLDB 5.9023799e-05
6,132 ConnectorX: Accelerating Data Loading From Databases to Dataframes 2022 VLDB 5.8593078e-05
6,250 Predicate Caching: Query-Driven Secondary Indexing for Cloud Data Warehouses 2024 SIGMOD 5.818039e-05
6,290 Shared Foundations: Modernizing Meta's Data Lakehouse 2023 CIDR 5.8051881e-05
6,400 Selection Pushdown in Column Stores using Bit Manipulation Instructions 2023 SIGMOD 5.7811299e-05
6,455 AlayaDB: The Data Foundation for Efficient and Effective Long-context LLM Inference 2025 SIGMOD 5.762002e-05
6,512 Operon: An Encrypted Database for Ownership-Preserving Data Management 2022 VLDB 5.7440191e-05
6,572 MotherDuck: DuckDB in the cloud and in the client 2024 CIDR 5.7274794e-05
6,592 Deep Lake: a Lakehouse for Deep Learning 2023 CIDR 5.722881e-05
6,612 GaussDB: A Cloud-Native Multi-Primary Database with Compute-Memory-Storage Disaggregation 2024 VLDB 5.7175793e-05
6,618 Cackle: Analytical Workload Cost and Performance Stability With Elastic Pools 2023 SIGMOD 5.715013e-05
6,650 Physical Visualization Design: Decoupling Interface and System Design 2025 SIGMOD 5.7046144e-05
6,658 Workload Insights From The Snowflake Data Cloud: What Do Production Analytic Queries Really Look Like? 2025 VLDB 5.7025639e-05
6,768 Multi-Tenant Cloud Data Services: State-of-the-Art, Challenges and Opportunities 2022 SIGMOD 5.6693759e-05
6,902 DAPHNE: An Open and Extensible System Infrastructure for Integrated Data Analysis Pipelines 2022 CIDR 5.6365602e-05
6,942 Petabyte-Scale Row-Level Operations in Data Lakehouses 2024 VLDB 5.622856e-05
6,994 Two Birds With One Stone: Designing a Hybrid Cloud Storage Engine for HTAP 2024 VLDB 5.6094434e-05
7,019 Statisticum: Data Statistics Management in SAP HANA 2017 VLDB 5.6041386e-05
7,095 Yellowbrick: An Elastic Data Warehouse on Kubernetes 2024 CIDR 5.5855676e-05
7,098 Understanding the Performance Implications of the Design Principles in Storage-Disaggregated Databases 2024 SIGMOD 5.5847531e-05
7,169 Cost-Intelligent Data Analytics in the Cloud 2024 CIDR 5.5789764e-05
7,231 Hardware Acceleration of Compression and Encryption in SAP HANA 2022 VLDB 5.5634523e-05
7,264 Pruning in Snowflake: Working Smarter, Not Harder 2025 SIGMOD 5.5557256e-05
7,363 Blueprinting the Cloud: Unifying and Automatically Optimizing Cloud Data Infrastructures with BRAD 2024 VLDB 5.5279826e-05
7,369 Bullion: A Column Store for Machine Learning 2025 CIDR 5.5261972e-05
7,383 Optimizing Collections of Bloom Filters within a Space Budget 2024 VLDB 5.5222465e-05
7,432 POLAR: Adaptive and Non-invasive Join Order Selection via Plans of Least Resistance 2024 VLDB 5.5133928e-05
7,771 The FastLanes File Format 2025 VLDB 5.4390723e-05
7,842 Pivotal Greenplum for Kubernetes: Demonstration of Managing Greenplum Database on Kubernetes 2019 SIGMOD 5.4259982e-05
7,850 TDSQL: Tencent Distributed Database System 2024 VLDB 5.4233206e-05
7,980 Cloud-Native Database Systems and Unikernels: Reimagining OS Abstractions for Modern Hardware 2024 VLDB 5.3971087e-05
8,068 Cloud Databases: New Techniques, Challenges, and Opportunities 2022 VLDB 5.3809781e-05
8,107 Krypton: Real-time Serving and Analytical SQL Engine at ByteDance 2023 VLDB 5.3739121e-05
8,294 Sigma Workbook: A Spreadsheet for Cloud Data Warehouses 2022 VLDB 5.344057e-05
8,311 ELT-Bench: An End-to-End Benchmark for Evaluating AI Agents on ELT Pipelines 2026 VLDB 5.3410298e-05
8,439 Workload-Aware Incremental Reclustering in Cloud Data Warehouses 2026 SIGMOD 5.3148581e-05
8,539 New Query Optimization Techniques in the Spark Engine of Azure Synapse 2022 VLDB 5.3048225e-05
8,596 Practical DB-OS Co-Design with Privileged Kernel Bypass 2025 SIGMOD 5.2926896e-05
8,597 Starry: Multi-master Transaction Processing on Semi-leader Architecture 2023 VLDB 5.2926286e-05
8,620 Not Black-Box Anymore! Enabling Analytics-Aware Optimizations in Teradata Vantage 2021 VLDB 5.2868261e-05
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