Introducing pg_lake, a set of open-source PostgreSQL extensions from Snowflake that allow you to query, manage, and write to Iceberg tables in your data lakehouse.
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Snowflake Postgres is Now Available in Public Preview
Fully managed Postgres on Snowflake is in public preview, delivering compatibility, simple provisioning, instance resizing, security, and built-in logs.
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Engineering Enterprise-Grade Reliability for Writes to Any Iceberg REST Catalog
Discover the engineering behind Snowflake’s robust write path for external Iceberg tables. We detail design choices for concurrency control (with enhanced locking) and commit resilience to eliminate wasted compute and ensure data consistency.
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Bringing the Snowflake Platform to Data Lakes
A practical guide to bridging data lake-native engines and the warehouse model: Iceberg catalogs, external catalogs vs platform catalogs, pros and cons, and when to use each
DEC 10, 2025|8 min read
Arctic-Extract: Compact, Efficient and State-of-the-Art Vision-Language Processing
Snowflake’s Arctic-Extract powers AI_EXTRACT with a compact 6.6 GiB model that delivers state-of-the-art document understanding for visual, multilingual, and tabular data.
DEC 10, 2025|7 min read
How Snowflake’s Storage Subsystem Handles Credentials Vended by Apache Iceberg Catalogs
Learn how Snowflake’s storage subsystem consumes and secures credentials vended by Apache Iceberg catalogs, comparing external-volume and catalog-managed models with setup tips.
DEC 09, 2025|6 min read
Apache Polaris (incubating) 1.3 Released: Enhanced Governance and Connectivity
Apache Polaris 1.3 release adds metrics reporting, Open Policy Agent integration, and enhanced catalog-federation security
DEC 09, 2025|4 min read
PostGIS Day 2025 Recap: AI, Lakehouses and Geospatial Community
Read the highlights from PostGIS Day 2025: practical AI agents, modern lakehouse/GeoParquet patterns, and real-world geospatial use cases - talks, demos and resources.
DEC 08, 2025|8 min read
Introducing Interactive Analytics, Powered by Interactive Tables and Warehouses
How interactive Tables and Warehouses work together to deliver low-latency, always-on analytics with incremental refresh and high concurrency
DEC 03, 2025|6 min read
