Snowflake acquires Crunchy Data and announces Snowflake Postgres

2025-06-02 · Publisher : Snowflake · Domain : Cloud & DevOps

Snowflake announces the acquisition of Crunchy Data, an open source PostgreSQL specialist, to create Snowflake Postgres, a transactional database for AI applications and agents.

### What changes On 2 June 2025, **Snowflake** announced an agreement to acquire **Crunchy Data**, a provider of open source **PostgreSQL** technology, to create **Snowflake Postgres**. The deal is described as "expected to close imminently", subject to customary conditions; the price is not given in the announcement. ### Key facts - Snowflake Postgres aims at an "AI-ready", enterprise-grade database, with full PostgreSQL compatibility that lets teams migrate code without rewriting. - Announced features: hardened security with customer-managed encryption keys, compliance support for regulated industries, a fully managed service, native vectors. - Integration with the Snowflake platform for transactional and analytical workloads. - Targets: large financial institutions, high-scale SaaS companies and US federal agencies. - Blue Yonder, a customer cited in the announcement, sees an opportunity to "accelerate and simplify" benefits for its own customers by consolidating its application infrastructure within the Snowflake ecosystem. - Product details (availability, timeline, pricing) are not in the announcement: they remain to be confirmed at launch. ### Why it matters After Databricks' purchase of Neon a few weeks earlier, Snowflake also picks Postgres as its operational engine. For IT leaders, the message is that the data platform wants to absorb the transactional database, with a concentration risk at a single vendor. Postgres compatibility, for its part, limits exit costs. ### Takeaway Snowflake answers Databricks by buying its own Postgres specialist.

Tags : Données, Acquisition, Open Source, Sécurité