Snowflake
Snowflake is a cloud-based data platform that enables data storage, processing, and analytic solutions.
Space and Time is, essentially, the decentralized version of Snowflake. Snowflake is a robust data platform that runs completely on cloud infrastructure. All components of the service run in public cloud infrastructures, and data is stored in cloud storage. In contrast, SxT is a Web3-native, trustless, cryptographically guaranteed decentralized data warehouse with comparable scalability to the Snowflake cloud solution. Though Snowflake revolutionized big data processing, analytics, and storage, it remains, at its core, a centralized model, and is therefore not appropriate for many Web3 projects.
SxT is a decentralized, drag-and-drop replacement for Snowflake, empowering a similar scale of data warehousing for the trustless future, and enabling easy joins of on and off-chain data, the generation of cryptographic guarantees, and seamless smart contract integration.
| At its core... | Snowflake | Space and Time |
|---|---|---|
| ...what is it? | Cloud data warehouse | Decentralized data warehouse |
| ...what does it do? | Enterprise-scale data warehousing | Fast access to full on-chain and custom off-chain data (or joined hybrid) via API or SQL |
| ...who operates? | Centralized Snowflake operations on AWS, Google Cloud Platform, Azure | Independent node operators on AWS, Google Cloud Platform, Azure, on-premise |
| who would use? | Traditional enterprises | dapp developers, smart contracts needing complex joins of on/off chain data, analysts for decision support, other visualization tools |
Updated 2 months ago