Snowflake releases
Snowflake blog and product updates. New features, breaking changes, security advisories and deprecations - each summarised in plain English and updated continuously.
Tracking 52 Snowflake releases · Updated
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Snowflake Integrates Postgres for Unified Apps, Analytics, and AI
Snowflake is introducing Snowflake Postgres, a new solution designed to bridge the gap between transactional applications and analytical workloads, eliminating the need for complex ETL pipelines. Announced features include data mirroring for real-time replication and 'Postgres for your data lake' for flexible data synchronization with open formats like Iceberg. These capabilities aim to provide businesses with consistent, up-to-date data for AI and real-time applications, impacting teams managing both OLTP and OLAP systems.
feature announcement - Snowflake Blog blogdatasnowflakepreviewengineer ·
Snowflake Hybrid Tables See Major Performance and Cost Improvements
Snowflake has significantly boosted the performance of Hybrid Tables, offering up to 8x faster point lookups and 10x faster batch writes with 10x lower cost, based on internal benchmarks. These enhancements aim to consolidate transactional and analytical workloads, eliminating the need for separate OLTP databases and reducing complexity for AI applications and workflow state management. The improvements, which will be enabled by default for all Hybrid Tables workloads, also include the elimination of request credit billing, resulting in average cost reductions of 15%.
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