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Snowflake
- All joins happen within Snowflake.
- Entity dataframes can be provided as a SQL query or can be provided as a Pandas dataframe. A Pandas dataframes will be uploaded to Snowflake as a temporary table in order to complete join operations.
In order to use this offline store, you'll need to run
pip install 'feast[snowflake]'.If you're using a file based registry, then you'll also need to install the relevant cloud extra (
pip install 'feast[snowflake, CLOUD]' where CLOUD is one of aws, gcp, azure)You can get started by then running
feast init -t snowflake.feature_store.yaml
project: my_feature_repo
registry: data/registry.db
provider: local
offline_store:
type: snowflake.offline
account: snowflake_deployment.us-east-1
user: user_login
password: user_password
role: SYSADMIN
warehouse: COMPUTE_WH
database: FEAST
schema: PUBLIC
The set of functionality supported by offline stores is described in detail here. Below is a matrix indicating which functionality is supported by the Snowflake offline store.
Text | Snowflake |
|---|---|
get_historical_features (point-in-time correct join) | yes |
pull_latest_from_table_or_query (retrieve latest feature values) | yes |
pull_all_from_table_or_query (retrieve a saved dataset) | yes |
offline_write_batch (persist dataframes to offline store) | yes |
write_logged_features (persist logged features to offline store) | yes |
Below is a matrix indicating which functionality is supported by
SnowflakeRetrievalJob.Text | Snowflake |
|---|---|
export to dataframe | yes |
export to arrow table | yes |
export to arrow batches | yes |
export to SQL | yes |
export to data lake (S3, GCS, etc.) | yes |
export to data warehouse | yes |
export as Spark dataframe | yes |
local execution of Python-based on-demand transforms | yes |
remote execution of Python-based on-demand transforms | no |
persist results in the offline store | yes |
preview the query plan before execution | yes |
read partitioned data | yes |
To compare this set of functionality against other offline stores, please see the full functionality matrix.
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