Snowflake Snowday 2023 – “The View Ahead”
Last Thursday I attended Snowflake’s Snowday After last June’s Snowflake Summit, another event full of announcements. This blog is a compilation based on my notes of all the announcements that have been made.
Snowday 2023
This years Snowday 2023 was concentrated around the following 3 topics:
- Data Foundation
- Accelerate AI Succes
- Scale with Applications
A solid Data Foundation is a pre-requisite to accelerate AI Success or to scale with Applications.
Bring the Data to the Compute instead of the other way around. Do not try to solve data silos on one hand and create others on the other hand. Focus on building data products instead of building and maintaining the platform. Let Snowflake do the heavy lifting in the back. Ease & simplicity.
Data Foundation
Snowflake Tables (Storage)
Hybrid Tables (Unistore) – Full Public Preview at the end of 2023
Iceberg Tables – Public Preview soon
Snowflake Horizon (Data Governance)
Compliance
Data Quality Monitoring (Data Metric Function, notifications & alerts) – Private Preview today
Data Lineage UI as part of Snowsight – Private Preview today
Security
Trust Centre, a new interface in Snowsight – Private Preview soon
Privacy
Differential Privacy – Privacy Controls – Private Preview soon
Interoperability
Iceberg Catalog API – In Development
Access
Search through your entire Metadata Catalog via Natural Language experience – Private Preview today
Cost Management Interface – Private Preview today
Visability
Control
Optimization
Accelerate AI Succes
Build and Deploy ML with Ease.
Snowpark ML Modeling API – GA soon
Snowpark Model Registry – Public Preview soon
Snowflake Feature Store – Private Preview today
(Python & SQL)
Streamlit in Snowflake – Public Preview today
Snowflake Notebooks – Private Preview today
Snowpark Container Services – Public Preview soon in in select AWS regions
Build Full Custom Apps
AI for Everyone – Snowflake Cortex
Serverless Specialized functions powered by Cortex (ML- & LLM-based)
LLM-based models
Answer Extraction – Private Preview today
Sentiment Detection – Private Preview today
Text Summarization – Private Preview today
Translation – Private Preview today
ML-based models
Forecasting – GA soon
Anomaly Detection – GA soon
Contribution Explorer – Public Preview soon
Classification – Private Preview soon
Serverless General functions powered by Cortex
Complete – Private Preview today
Text2SQL – Private Preview today
Snowflake Copilot – Private Preview today
Document AI – Private Preview today
Search – Private Preview today
Scale with Applications
Database Change Management
Git Integration
run scripts from files in stage – Private Preview today
create or alter snowflake objects – GA soon
Native App Framework – GA soon on AWS and Public Preview soon on Azure
“The Powered by Snowflake Funding Program intends to invest up to $100M in startups building Snowflake Native Apps. The program features AWS and leading venture capital firms.”
Snowflake Command Line Interface – Public Preview soon
Event Tables – GA
Universal Search – Private Preview today
Natural Language Search & Find objects in the Data Cloud
Summary
Continuing after Snowflake Summit, Snowflake has made a few additional announcements. Still everything is concentrated around the idea that data should remain in one place regardless of where the data is going to be used next. Bring AI and Applications to the data instead of the other way around. Downside of all these announcements is that a lot of these announcements are still in Private Preview or at least not Generally Available for the public.
Till next time.
Snowflake Data Superhero. Online also known as; DaAnalytics.
