Snowflake - Editions

Snowflake provides four different editions based on users /company s requirement.

Standard

Enterprise

Business Critical

Virtual Private Snowflake (VPS)

Standard Edition

It is the basic version of Snowflake. It provides the following features in this edition −

Supports complete SQL Data Warehouse

Secure Data Sharing

Premier support for 24×365

Time travel of 1 day

Data Encryption

Dedicated virtual warehouses

Federated Authentication

Database Reppcation

External Functions support

Snowsight

Supporting user s own data exchange creation

Data Marketplace Access

Enterprise Edition

It is Standard+ edition i.e. all features of Standard edition plus following additional features −

Multi-cluster warehouses

Time travel up to 90 days

Encryption key changes annually

Materiapzed Views

Search Optimization Services

Dynamic Data Masking

External Data Tokenization

Business Critical Edition

It is Enterprise+ edition, i.e., all features of Enterprise and Standard edition plus following additional features −

HIPPA support

PCI comppance

Data Encryption everywhere

AWS Private Link Support

Azure Private Link Support

Database Failover and fallback

Virtual Private Snowflake (VPS) Edition

It is Business Critical+ edition and the most advanced version. It supports all the offerings of Snowflake.

Customer dedicated virtual servers where the encryption key is in memory.

Customer dedicated metadata store.