Snowflake vs. Redshift – Support for Handling JSON
Uli Bethke
ANSI SQL 2016 introduced support for querying JSON data directly from SQL. This is a common use case nowadays. JSON is everywhere in web based applications, IOT, NoSQL databases, and when querying APIs. In this document we compare Amazon Redshift and Snowflake features to handle JSON documents. Loading JSON data In this section, we will ...
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