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FEATURE
Snowflake Horizon Catalog
Universal AI catalog that provides built-in context and governance for AI across all data — compatible with any engine, any data format, anywhere.
Gain enterprise-grade security and governance for data and AI
Interoperate without vendor lock-in
Help AI better understand your data
Cross-region, cross-cloud manageability and sharing at scale
How Snowflake Horizon Catalog works
Enterprise-grade security and governance for data and AI
Understand and protect your data effortlessly
- Safeguard data, apps and models with built-in encryption, monitoring, network policies and unified role-based access control (RBAC) and attribute-based access control (ABAC).
- Protect sensitive data in structured or unstructured formats with auto-classification, tagging, protection and monitoring.
- Visualize the end-to-end flow of all data — including external data sets — and understand relationships with lineage.
Interoperability without vendor lock-in
Build an open lakehouse that integrates all data
- Benefit from community contributions directly in Horizon Catalog by building on industry-standard open APIs, such as Iceberg REST Catalog and Apache Polaris™.
- Enjoy ultimate flexibility by getting full read and write access to all Iceberg Tables using any engine that’s compatible with Iceberg REST.
- Federate with Iceberg REST catalogs for unified data discovery and governance — no matter where your data lives.
- Easily migrate to open source Apache Polaris at any time to avoid vendor lock-in.
AI that better understands your data
Unlock enterprise AI with a catalog that learns and knows your data
- Help AI agents find, understand and query your data assets correctly with metadata that includes lineage, semantic views, vector search and more.
- Use AI to generate data dictionaries, ask questions and glean context from existing dashboards and documents.
- Make your queries more powerful over time with Horizon Catalog’s ability to learn which tables are most popular, how they’re usually joined, and what other terms they relate to.
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Merkle Improves Customer Experiences While Providing Data Governance and Security
Merkle, a dentsu company, consolidates sensitive data and collaborates with clients in Snowflake, resulting in a more efficient, trusted data environment that expedites data access and reduces risk.
- 64% Faster data development cycle
- 20% Estimated cost savings
Secure data sharing and management
Interconnect business ecosystems across regions and clouds
- Simplify data administration for your entire organization with a unified plane that centralizes management of users, groups, cost, observability and auditing.
- Streamline business continuity and disaster recovery with cross-cloud, cross-region replication and failover for both Native and Iceberg Tables.
Quickly and securely discover, access and share AI-ready data products across regions and clouds — both internally and externally.
Your Governance Resources
Tap into the vast ecosystem of Snowflake resources, partner offerings and community of Data Superheroes.
Snowflake Horizon Catalog Partner Ecosystem
Maximize existing investments and manage your entire data estate with pre-built integrations by leading partners.
Snowflake Community
Meet and learn from a global network of data governance leaders in Snowflake’s community forum and Snowflake User Groups.
Snowflake Documentation
Check out Snowflake documentation for for information about features, tutorials and a detailed reference of commands, functions and operations.
