Denodo + Snowflake: Maximize the Value of Your Lakehouse Investment

Enhance Snowflake with Real-Time Data Integration, Semantic Consistency, and Federated Governance

Overview

Snowflake has become a cornerstone of many organizations’ modern data strategies. It offers scalable storage, powerful compute, and a unified platform for analytics and AI workloads. It consolidates large volumes of structured and semi-structured data and delivers high-performance analytical processing.

But not all data lives in Snowflake-and not all use cases are best served by centralizing it. Real-time operational reporting, AI applications that require live context, and scenarios in which data must remain distributed or governed in place often fall outside the traditional strengths of a centralized lakehouse.

That’s where Denodo comes in. The Denodo Platform adds a logical data management layer on top of your Snowflake investment, enabling real-time data integration, semantic consistency, and governed self-service access to data across all systems-cloud, on-premises, and SaaS-without requiring replication. Together, Denodo and Snowflake provide a comprehensive foundation for faster insights, stronger data governance, and AI success at scale.

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Key Benefits for Snowflake Users

By layering the Denodo Platform on top of your Snowflake deployment, you can unlock a range of powerful capabilities that enhance data access, governance, and performance—without adding complexity or cost.

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Unify Semantics Across Snowflake and Beyond

The Denodo Platform adds a universal semantic layer across Snowflake and other data sources, enabling consistent business definitions, metadata enrichment, and real-time access without replication. This enables all users to interpret data accurately and confidently, reducing errors and speeding time-to-insight across all data sources, and provides AI applications with AI-ready data.

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Deliver Real-Time Insights While Managing Costs

Real-time workloads like AI agents, fraud detection, and personalized experiences demand current data-not delayed batch snapshots. The Denodo Platform enables live queries across Snowflake and other systems without replication. With intelligent query optimization and FinOps dashboards, you get the performance and fresh data you need, while keeping compute usage and costs under control.

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Empower Self-Service with Trusted Data

The Denodo Platform enables a governed, self-service data marketplace layered over Snowflake and other sources. Business users and data scientists can explore and consume curated data products tailored to their needs-without relying on IT. This increases agility while maintaining enterprise-wide control, and it enables faster, smarter decisions using high-quality, trusted data.

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Fast-Track GenAI Development with Trusted, Contextual Data

The Denodo AI SDK accelerates GenAI initiatives by simplifying how developers connect large language models to enterprise data. With pre-built, RAG-optimized APIs and built-in security and governance, teams can quickly prototype and deploy AI agents using accurate, contextual data, without complex integration work or compromising enterprise policies.

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Extend Governance Across All Data

The Denodo Platform enhances Snowflake’s built-in controls by enforcing federated policies across your entire data landscape. Fine-grained access controls, security tags, and centralized oversight provide consistent data governance, even beyond Snowflake. This enables organizations to confidently support AI and analytics while staying compliant with regulatory and internal data policies.

Watch: How Snowflake and Denodo Power Modern Data Architectures

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Self-Service Data Access across All Sources

The Denodo Platform provides a single, logical data access layer that unifies data from Snowflake, on-premises systems, SaaS applications, and other sources. This enables business users, data scientists, and analysts to easily find and access data, regardless of its location or format, accelerating insights without the need for complex data replication or movement.

Agile Data Provisioning and Reduced Time-to-Value

With the Denodo Platform, new data sources can be onboarded quickly, and data can be accessed on-demand, directly from Snowflake and other systems. This agility supports faster prototyping, reduces time-to-insight, and simplifies compliance by minimizing the need for data replication.

Optimized Performance and Cost Management

The Denodo Platform’s advanced query optimization and Smart Query Acceleration features help reduce the cost and improve the performance of analytical queries on Snowflake. By offloading non-critical queries and managing data usage with quotas and controls, organizations can better manage costs while maintaining high performance.

Enhanced Security and Governance

The Denodo Platform provides centralized security controls, such as role-based access control (RBAC) and attribute-based access control (ABAC), across all data sources. Integration with existing governance tools like Collibra ensures consistent enforcement of security policies, enhancing data protection and compliance.

Empowering Everyone to Make Data-Driven Decisions

The Denodo Platform caters to the needs of a variety of different data consumers, from business users and data engineers to data scientists and C-level executives. Its integrated data catalog simplifies data discovery and usage, providing tools and interfaces tailored to the diverse needs of all users within the organization.

Future-Proof Your Data Architecture

By creating a logical data layer, the Denodo Platform decouples data access from the underlying storage, enabling organizations to evolve their data backend and easily incorporate emerging technologies like Apache Iceberg and Delta Lake file formats without disrupting operations. This flexibility enables seamless migrations, supports hybrid cloud strategies, and eliminates vendor lock-in.

Success Stories

Prologis, a global leader in logistics real estate, leveraged the combined power of the Denodo Platform and Snowflake to modernize and accelerate its analytics infrastructure, focusing on supporting AI/ML initiatives for their data scientists. By implementing the Denodo Platform alongside Snowflake’s scalable cloud capabilities, Prologis seamlessly integrated and accessed real-time data across on-premises and cloud environments, accelerating analytics processes by as much as 30%. This powerful combination enabled Prologis to improve efficiency and maintain flexibility without disrupting business.

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