Discovering Snowpark
Snowpark is the recent major innovation released by Snowflake that provides an intuitive set of libraries and runtimes for querying and processing data at scale in Snowflake. This chapter aims to guide you through Snowpark to understand its unique capabilities. In addition, the chapter helps you learn how to utilize Python with Snowpark and implement it in various workloads such as data engineering, data science, and data applications. By the end of this chapter, you will have grasped Snowpark’s capabilities and benefits, including faster data processing, scalability, and reduced costs.
In this chapter, we’re going to cover the following main topics:
- Introducing Snowpark
- Leveraging Python for Snowpark
- Understanding Snowpark for different workloads
- Realizing the value of using Snowpark