1. A computer implemented method of creating a manifest-based snapshot of a data object in a distributed cloud-computing platform, the method comprising: responsive to receiving a request to create a snapshot of the data object, identifying, by a master node of a distributed database system, multiple slave nodes of the distributed database system on which a data object is stored in the cloud-computing platform, wherein the distributed database system includes the master node and the multiple slave nodes; creating a snapshot manifest representing the snapshot of the data object, wherein the snapshot manifest comprises a file including a listing of multiple file names in the snapshot manifest and reference information for locating the multiple files in the distributed database system.