Answer: Virtual Private Snowflake

According to Snowflake documentation and the community discussion with upvoted comments, Virtual Private Snowflake (VPS) is the minimum edition that provides a dedicated metadata store. The community references the official Snowflake documentation which clearly states that VPS offers dedicated metadata stores and compute resources, while Standard, Enterprise, and Business Critical editions use shared metadata services. The comments with the highest upvotes (3 upvotes each) specifically cite the documentation and confirm that VPS is the correct answer.

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