Snowflake

Snowflake is an analytic data warehouse running completely on a cloud infrastructure. Snowflake supports loading popular data formats like JSON, Avro, Parquet, ORC, and XML. Using Pentaho Data Integration (PDI), you can load your data into Snowflake and define jobs in PDI to efficiently orchestrate warehouse operations, paying only for the storage and computing resources actually used when you use them.

Using the Snowflake job entries in PDI, data engineers can set up virtual warehouses, bulk load data, and stop the warehouse when the process is complete. You can scale Snowflake virtual warehouses up and down, or suspend them when not in use to reduce costs.

In this Lab you'll be using Pentaho Data Integration with Snowflake to:

  • leverage PDI's broad set of transformation capabilities to ingest and prepare data before loading it into Snowflake for advanced analytics.

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