What's it made of?
Layers and Layers
All about the branding
Not a platform
100

Our Data Platform supports this many workloads

What is 6?

100
Snowflake's three main layers all sit on this- we're impartial!

What is the cloud agnostic layer?

100

Snowflake's tag line is "Your data. No this"

What is limits?

100

While you might not be storing grain or seed, this term is used for disjointed data storage

What are data silos? 

200

Data platforms are especially needed now that data is said to be worth more than this resource

What is Oil?

200

The first and most core layer of Snowflake is this, or where all the data resides

What is centralized storage?

200

The three C's of the "current state architectures" are this term, complex, and constrained

What is costly?

200

The biggest three competitors in the cloud platform space are these three companies, our largest partners

What are Google, Microsoft, and Amazon?
300

This, in one word, is "what makes Snowflake unique"

What is architecture?

300

The second layer of Snowflake is the engine powering the analytics, also called this layer

What is multi-cluster compute?

300
Snowflake is an OLAP cloud data platform, not playing in this other 4 letter domain of systems

What is OLTP?

300

That's not a platform- it's a portfolio! (or a collection of these, often positioned as a platform)

What are products?


Applications also accepted

400

The process of managing the availability, usability, integrity, and security of data is this term

What is data governance?

400

The third layer of Snowflake is not the "meta-data layer", but this cohesive set of valuable actions and features

What is the cloud services layer?

400

When describing Snowflake, we say it is One Platform, One "this 4 word term", Many Workloads

What is One Copy of the Data?

400

Teradata, Oracle, and IBM are some of these types of competitors, which are trying to brand as data platforms

What are On Prem/legacy?

500

While we work with AWS, GCP, and Azure, most clients are on this cloud provider

What is AWS?

500

Clouds (like real ones), form in this layer of the Earth's atmosphere

What is the troposphere?

500

Not a data platform, but "The Data-to-Everything™ Platform" is the tagline of this (mainly SIEM) product

What is Splunk?
500

Databricks and Cloudera are companies who provide this type of solution/software, still not a data platform

What is open source?