Workload Insights From The Snowflake Data Cloud: What Do Production Analytic Queries Really Look Like?
Summary: Analysis of 667M BI queries on Snowflake over two weeks, characterizing production analytic workloads at cloud scale across industries. Reveals detailed filter/join/aggregation behaviors and uncovers workload patterns absent from standard benchmarks, guiding DB research. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Jan Vincent Szlang (Snowflake)
- 2. Sebastian Bress (Snowflake)
- 3. Sebastian Cattes (Snowflake)
- 4. Jonathan Dees (Snowflake)
- 5. Florian Funke (Snowflake)
- 6. Max Heimel (Snowflake)
- 7. Michel Oleynik (Snowflake)
- 8. Ismail Oukid (Snowflake)
- 9. Tobias Maltenberger (Snowflake)
BibTeX Citation
@article{szlang_vldb25,
title = {{Workload Insights From The Snowflake Data Cloud: What Do Production Analytic Queries Really Look Like?}},
author = {Szlang, Jan Vincent and Bress, Sebastian and Cattes, Sebastian and Dees, Jonathan and Funke, Florian and Heimel, Max and Oleynik, Michel and Oukid, Ismail and Maltenberger, Tobias},
journal = {PVLDB},
series = {{VLDB} '25},
volume = {18},
number = {12},
pages = {5126--5138},
doi = {10.14778/3750601.3750632},
url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3750601.3750632},
year = {2025}
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| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3,900 | SQLStorm: Taking Database Benchmarking into the LLM Era | 2025 | VLDB | 6.9320915e-05 |
| 9,569 | Global Hash Tables Strike Back! An Analysis of Parallel GROUP BY Aggregation | 2026 | VLDB | 5.154741e-05 |
| 10,248 | Redbench: Workload Synthesis From Cloud Traces | 2026 | VLDB | 5.0501823e-05 |
| 10,886 | Window Function Optimization: Co-Evaluation and Other Techniques | 2026 | VLDB | 4.9769913e-05 |
| 10,895 | Accelerating String-Heavy Queries with LLM Token Tables | 2026 | VLDB | 4.9769913e-05 |
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