Challenges
- Snowflake is a cloud-based data warehouse platform. Multiple ETL / BI tools have created their native connectors to connect to Snowflake.
- Snowflake needs to validate the functionalities and performance of the connectors.
- What needs to be validated: Performance, datatypes support, authentication methods, pushdown functionality, SQL support, etc.
Solutions
- Created the test scenarios to be built by ETL / BI tools to validate the connector.
- Validated the test result and identified the issues / observations.
- As a deliverable, Persistent team provided three documents to Snowflake:
- Validation criteria – Read-out
- Observations doc
- Best practices doc
- Reference architecture diagram
Outcomes
Marketing Support
Validation badge promotes achievement
Demonstrates Expertise
Partner logo displayed on the Snowflake page
GTM activities
Blog, press release, social promotion, etc
Access to insights
Best practices, issues/observations, reference architecture