- Benoit Dageville, Thierry Cruanes, Marcin Zukowski, Vadim Antonov, Artin Avanes, Jon Bock, Jonathan Claybaugh, Daniel Engovatov, Martin Hentschel, Jiansheng Huang, Allison W. Lee, Ashish Motivala, Abdul Q. Munir, Steven Pelley, Peter Povinec, Greg Rahn, Spyridon Triantafyllis, Philipp Unterbrunner. The Snowflake Elastic Data Warehouse. Proceedings of ACM SIGMOD 2016. [PDF]
Some questions to consider as you read:
- In what ways is the SnowFlake system purpose built for the cloud?
- How does SnowFlake scale "elastically"?
- SnowFlake has a "shared disk" design; how does that help it? Are there any disadvantages to such a design?