Snowflake Product Innovations
From the Data Warehouse Built for the Cloud to Secure Data Sharing and beyond.
Sept 2019
Snowflake Data Exchange
Customers can discover, exchange and securely share data and consume data analytics services via the Snowflake Data Exchange.
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Database Replication and Failover
Share data with other Snowflake customers in different regions and instantly access data even in an outage.
Learn MoreJune 2019
Snowflake on Microsoft Azure Government
Federal agencies benefit from the performance, scalability and simplicity of Snowflake while simultaneously meeting strict government security and compliance requirements.
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Materialized Views
Snowflake Materialized Views are designed to improve query performance for workloads composed of common, repeated query patterns so customers can meet strict SLAs.
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Snowpipe
Streaming and continuous data sources continue to gain popularity as IoT and web-based data sources become more popular. With Snowpipe, any organization can load continuously generated data automatically into Snowflake.
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Data Sharing Rebates Program
Customers can lower their Snowflake bill by sharing data with external organizations. Data providers receive a credit of 10% of their consumers usage.
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Databricks Connector
Databricks and Snowflake now provide an optimized, built-in connector that allows customers to seamlessly read from and write data to Snowflake using Databricks.
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Snowflake on Azure
With customer demand for Microsoft Azure on the rise, and the need for large organizations to have flexibility across their cloud strategy, Snowflake is now available on Azure.
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Private Connectivity with PrivateLink
AWS PrivateLink allows any Snowflake customer to connect to their Snowflake instance without traversing the Internet. This feature significantly enhances the ability of Snowflake to serve organizations with enhanced security requirements.
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Instant Elasticity
The beauty of Snowflake’s multi-cluster, shared data architecture is the ability to access unlimited amounts of compute to serve all of your data and all of your users. With our announcement of Instant Elasticity, all of that compute is now available in seconds, billed by the second. There’s no waiting for compute capacity, and you pay for exactly what you use.
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Virtual Private Snowflake
Companies with sensitive data need performant cloud data warehousing just as badly as any other organization. VPS is a dedicated Snowflake environment that provides the sophisticated security requirements that companies with sensitive data need, and with the incredible performance that Snowflake has always delivered to its customers.
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Australian Data Center
Our new data center in Australia marked the first step into Asia Pacific as Snowflake continues to expand in the region and around the world.
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Secure Data Sharing
Snowflake transformed the world of data sharing, removing the need for organizations to rely on complex, manual, file-based processes to send and receive data. Instead, any Snowflake customer can grant secure and governed access to any slice of their data to any other Snowflake customer. What’s the coolest part? Your data doesn’t move.
Learn MoreMay 2017
Tri-Secret Secure
The security of customer data is Snowflake’s first priority at all times. In addition to Snowflake’s controlled encryption and role-based security practices, customers can also utilize their own external key. We call it Tri-Secret Secure.
Learn MoreApr 2017
Spark Connector
The Snowflake Connector for Spark enables powerful use cases, including machine learning and more complex ETL operations.
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Frankfurt Data Center
Demand for the data warehouse built for the cloud extends far beyond the United States. By expanding availability to AWS Frankfurt, customers across the EU can store their data locally and global customers with EU operations can do the same for greater speed and to meet EU data protection regulations.
Learn moreApr 2016
Multi-Cluster Warehouse
It’s hard to plan for capacity. Sometimes, hundreds or even thousands of BI users will query the data warehouse in a short span. With the announcement of multi-cluster warehouses, Snowflake enables anyone to serve unlimited numbers of users with an automated, multi-cluster virtual warehouse that adds clusters to match demand.
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Encryption Everywhere and HIPAA Compliance
With the addition of end-to-end encryption and our new, secure, Enterprise edition, Snowflake became the data warehouse of choice for organizations that need advanced data warehousing in a secure environment. HIPAA and and SOC2 compliance? You bet!
Learn MoreDec 2015
Native Python and R
A key priority for Snowflake is expanding the choices of tools that developers and analysts have to take advantage of Snowflake’s unique capabilities. The last quarter of 2015 was a busy one in this regard, including new support for R, with the R dplyr package, and a native Python connector.
Learn MoreOct 2014
The Data Warehouse Built for the Cloud
The world of data warehousing was changed forever when we announced the first data warehouse built from the ground up for the cloud: Snowflake. Based on a patented new architecture, Snowflake’s cloud service delivers the power of data warehousing, the flexibility of big data platforms and the elasticity of the cloud—at a fraction of the cost of on-premise data warehouses.
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