Snowflake is an analytic data warehouse running completely on a cloud infrastructure. Snowflake supports loading popular data formats like JSON, Avro, Parquet, ORC, and XML. Using Pentaho Data Integration (PDI), you can load your data into Snowflake and define jobs in PDI to efficiently orchestrate warehouse operations, paying only for the storage and computing resources actually used when you use them. See the Snowflake Documentation to learn more about Snowflake and how it works.
Using the Snowflake job entries in PDI, data engineers can set up virtual warehouses, bulk load data, and stop the warehouse when the process is complete. You can scale Snowflake virtual warehouses up and down, or suspend them when not in use to reduce costs.