[rjbwork]

Weird. In my circles, and the circles of people who are in the market for such a product, snowflake indicates a particular design pattern for designing data warehouses.

[jagtesh]

You’re both right. Snowflake as a technical slang/jargon generally refers to “flaky” or light-weight solutions that aren’t expected to withstand the test of time/scale.

Snowflake, the data warehousing platform, on the other hand is a juggernaut - in a league of it’s own (I suppose comparable to BigQuery and RedShift).

[cassianoleal]

To be fair, neither of us even could be wrong, we both expressed things as they are within each of our contexts, and personal opinions. :)