Snowflake

This is the implementation of the Snowflake data handler for MindsDB.

Snowflake is a cloud data warehouse that stores and analyzes data. It can automatically scale up/down its compute resources to load, integrate, and analyze data.

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Implementation

This handler is implemented using the Snowflake connector.

The required arguments to establish a connection are as follows:

• host is the host name or IP address. The host name comes from the Snowflake link (for example, uvwxyz123.us-west.gcp.snowflakecomputing.com).
• port is the port used to make TCP/IP connection.
• database is the database name. You can find it in the Snowflake dashboard under the Databases tab.
• user is the database user.
• password is the database password.
• account is the Snowflake account. The account name comes from the Snowflake link (for example, uvwxyz123.us-west.gcp).
• schema is the default schema name used to query the database.
• protocol is the protocol that defaults to https if left blank.
• warehouse is the warehouse account. You can find it in the Snowflake dashboard under the Warehouses tab.

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Usage

In order to make use of this handler and connect to the Snowflake database in MindsDB, the following syntax can be used:

CREATE DATABASE snowflake_datasource
WITH
    ENGINE = 'snowflake',
    PARAMETERS = {
    "host": "uvwxyz123.us-west.gcp.snowflakecomputing.com",
    "port": 443,
    "database": "database_name",
    "user": "user",
    "password": "password",
    "account": "uvwxyz123.us-west.gcp",
    "schema": "schema_name",
    "protocol": "https",
    "warehouse": "warehouse_name"
    };

You can use this established connection to query your table as follows:

SELECT *
FROM snowflake_datasource.example_table;

Please note that the above query uses the provided schema implicitly so it is equivalent to the following:

SELECT *
FROM snowflake_datasource.schema_name.example_table;

If you have access to other schemas available in the connected Snowflake database, then you can query them as below:

SELECT *
FROM snowflake_datasource.other_schema_name.example_table;