Running Pandas Jobs with Snowflake Data

Snowflake

Snowflake is a cloud-based data warehousing company that provides a platform for data storage, processing and analysis. It is considered cloud-agnostic, as it operates across Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud. Snowflake delivers a platform that is fast, flexible, and user-friendly. It provides the means for not only data storage but also processing and analysis. One of the main reasons that Snowflake is gaining recognition as the top cloud data warehousing solution is thanks to its architecture, which consists of dynamic, scalable computing power with usage-based charges out-of-the-box features such as data cloning and sharing, on-the-fly scalable computing and third-party tool support.

Pandas

Pandas is an open-source Python package that is most widely used for data science/data analysis and machine learning tasks. It provides support for multi-dimensional arrays and data manipulation. Pandas strengthens Python by giving the popular programming language the capability to work with spreadsheet-like data enabling fast loading, aligning, manipulating, and merging, in addition to other key functions. It is prized for providing highly optimized performance when backend source code is written in C or Python. Pandas has become popular because it provides a powerful set of commands and features that are used to easily analyze data. It can be used to perform various tasks like filtering data according to certain conditions, or segmenting and segregating data according to preference. It can efficiently handle large datasets and provides spreadsheet functionality.

With the growing popularity of both Snowflake for data storage and Pandas for compute workloads, it is unsurprising that many organizations are seeking to run Pandas jobs with Snowflake data. Kaspian offers a native connector for this operation. Just register your Snowflake datastore and link your Pandas job; Kaspian's autoscaling compute layer makes it easy to crunch through any data in your cloud with minimal setup or management.

Learn more about Kaspian and see how our flexible compute layer for the modern data cloud is already reshaping the way companies in industries like retail, manufacturing and logistics are thinking about data engineering and analytics.