What does Snowflake do?

Snowflake is a cloud data warehouse. Data teams use it to store and query their analytical data.

Refresher: what’s a Data Warehouse?

A data warehouse is a specially designed database that holds analytical data. It’s built to handle long, complicated queries written by data scientists, analysts, and machine learning engineers. 

If you’re iffy on what data warehouses do, now would be a good time to read the original post here. It covers: