Run Fast Queries On Top of Your Data Lake
Snowflake enables your data users to execute a near-unlimited number of concurrent queries against your data lake without impacting performance.
- Use external tables to directly query data in your data lake without having to move data.
- Increase query performance by using materialized views over external tables
- Synchronize external tables with Apache Hive metastore
- Automatically register new files from your data lake with partition auto-refresh
- Accelerate data exploration with Snowsight, the built-in visualization UI for Snowflake