🧩 Snowflake-specific features
Snowflake offers several advanced platform-native features that can be valuable for specific use cases:
- Share data between Snowflake accounts without copying or moving data
- Enables real-time collaboration across business units or regions
- Available across most editions (advanced sharing options may require Enterprise license)
- Instantly create copies of databases, schemas or tables without duplicating storage
- Clones are metadata pointers and free until changes are made (copy-on-write model)
- Useful for testing, backups or branching environments (CI/CD)