We’ll outline the key architectural differences between Teradata and Snowflake. We’ll cover how Teradata’s on-prem, shared-nothing MPP design compares to Snowflake’s cloud-native services layer with separate storage and compute, and what that means for scalability, elasticity, and cost. We’ll also highlight differences in data layout and optimization strategies, such as indexing and statistics in Teradata versus Snowflake’s micro-partitions, pruning, and automatic services for performance. Stay tuned for a concise, practical guide to help you reason about migrations and day‑to‑day operations.
