Snowflake Product Innovations
From the Data Warehouse Built for the Cloud to the Data Sharehouse and beyond.
July 2018
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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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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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 the 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, with the incredible performance that made Snowflake famous.
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Australian Data Center
The new data center in Australia marked the first step into the Asia Pacific region for Snowflake.
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The Data Sharehouse
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 access to their data to any other Snowflake customer. No need for data movement, or additional cost.
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Tri-Secret Secure
The security of customer data is Snowflake’s first priority at all times. In addition to Snowflake controlled encryption and role-based security practices, customers can also utilize their own external key. We call it Tri-Secret Secure.
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Spark Connector
With the introduction of the Snowflake Connector for Spark, Snowflake enabled connectivity to and from Spark. The connector 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 goes way farther than just the United States. By expanding availability to AWS Frankfurt,
customers across the EU finally gained access to Snowflake.
Apr 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.
Apr 2016
Encryption Everywhere and HIPAA Compliance
With the addition of end-to-end encryption and a new, secure, Enterprise edition, Snowflake became the data warehouse of choice for organizations who 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 that can 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.
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The Data Warehouse Built for the Cloud
The world of data warehousing was changed forever with the announcement of 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 90 percent lower cost than on-premises data warehouses.
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