Snowflake announced its intention to acquire Crunchy Data, a leading provider of trusted, open-source Postgres technology and products. This deal will bring Snowflake Postgres, the AI-ready, enterprise-grade, and developer-friendly PostgreSQL database to the AI Data Cloud, enabling developers with the full power of Postgres while providing the uncompromising governance, security, and operational standards essential for building and running mission-critical AI applications.
Value proposition: Organizations across industries are increasingly requiring an enterprise-grade and secure Postgres solution with full Postgres compatibility for their production applications. And Snowflake Postgres will bring Crunchy Data’s proven track record of enterprise readiness within FedRAMP-compliant environments directly into Snowflake’s AI Data Cloud.
PostgreSQL has been one of the most popular databases among developers, with 49% of all developers reporting they use it. Snowflake Postgres significantly simplifies how developers build, deploy, and scale production-ready AI agents and apps. It utilizes Crunchy Data’s technology, which has been engineered not just for quick experimentation but for the entire lifecycle of building, deploying, and operating the most critical enterprise workloads. Crunchy Data’s out-of-the-box access to essential performance metrics, built-in scaling capabilities, and powerful interface help developers build amazing apps fast.
Through Snowflake Postgres, customers and partners like Blue Yonder and LandingAI can ship faster, operate more efficiently, and gain a competitive advantage in the rapidly evolving shift towards AI agents.
Postgres community commitment: With the closing of this deal, Snowflake will make a strong commitment to the Postgres community as well as support existing Crunchy Data customers, while integrating Crunchy Data’s capabilities into Snowflake Postgres. And Snowflake Postgres represents a further advancement in Snowflake’s journey to support transactional data that began with Unistore, which unifies transactional and analytical data within a single database in Snowflake. Snowflake Postgres complements Unistore by offering companies with an enterprise-ready solution for transactional applications that require PostgreSQL compatibility.
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“Our vision is to deliver the world’s most trusted and comprehensive data and AI platform to our customers. Today’s announcement of our proposed acquisition of Crunchy Data represents another reason why Snowflake is the ultimate destination for all enterprise data and AI needs. We’re tackling a massive $350 billion market opportunity and a real need for our customers to bring Postgres to the Snowflake AI Data Cloud.”
Vivek Raghunathan, SVP of Engineering at Snowflake
“We built Crunchy Data with the vision to become a Postgres solution of choice for leading enterprise organizations. Our deep-rooted commitment to stringent security and comprehensive compliance has made us the trusted Postgres partner for organizations across regulated industries, including federal agencies, Fortune 500 financial institutions and high-scale SaaS companies. We’re excited to join forces with Snowflake to provide their customers who already rely on Postgres the ability to run mission-critical regulated workloads with increased confidence and security on the Snowflake platform.”
Paul Laurence, Co-Founder at Crunchy Data
“Snowflake’s platform serves as the foundation for Blue Yonder’s vast amount of supply chain data. Bringing PostgreSQL technology into the Snowflake ecosystem is an opportunity for our development teams to accelerate and simplify benefits for our customers.”
Chris Burchett, Senior Vice President, Generative AI, Blue Yonder.
“Access to a PostgreSQL database directly within Snowflake has the potential to be incredibly impactful for our team and our customers, as it would allow us to securely deploy our Snowflake Native App, LandingLens, into our customers’ account. This integration is a key building block in making it simpler to build, deploy, and run AI applications directly on the Snowflake platform.”
Dan Maloney, CEO, LandingAI
