concurrent access by many users<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\nSimplicity<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Traditional data warehouses often required significant expertise to manage and maintain. This often presented a barrier for businesses that wanted to leverage their data effectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The founders wanted to create a solution that was easy to use and required minimal maintenance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Flexibility<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
They knew that a new data warehousing solution would have to work with diverse data types and support a wide range of analytics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
They designed the platform for tasks ranging from business intelligence (BI) to data exploration to machine learning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Concurrent Workloads<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
The co-founders aimed to build a system that could handle multiple and concurrent workloads without performance degradation. This was a significant challenge with many existing solutions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Affordability<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
The biggest companies can throw money at the problem of scaling their traditional warehouses. The Snowflake founders wanted to create a more cost-effective solution that would put big data into the hands of a wider range of companies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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