We explored Snowflake design patterns for creating a multi-tenant analytics backend and uncovered challenges that pose issues around security, user experience, performance, scalability, and so much more.
Read our article to learn about these top 3 challenges and their associated risks when using Snowflake for a multi-tenant analytics database:
- Maintaining the Entitlement Table
- Authenticating and Routing Users
- Isolating Workloads and Managing Compute Resources
This is particularly relevant for software engineering leaders building self-service reporting functionality in SaaS applications where Snowflake data needs to be multi-tenant ready.