Snowflake announced at its annual user conference, Snowflake Summit 2025,
its intent to acquire Crunchy Data, a leading provider of trusted open
source Postgres technology and products. This acquisition 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.
Organizations
across industries increasingly require an enterprise-grade and secure
Postgres solution with full Postgres compatibility for their production
apps. 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 continues to dominate as the most popular database amongst
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 leverages 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 important enterprise workloads. Crunchy Data's
out-of-the-box access to essential performance metrics, built-in robust
scaling capabilities and powerful interface help developers build
amazing apps fast.
With Snowflake Postgres, customers and partners such as Blue Yonder and LandingAI,
who currently leverage PostgreSQL to power their applications'
operational data, can ship faster, operate more efficiently and gain a
competitive advantage in the rapidly evolving shift towards AI agents.
"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," said Vivek
Raghunathan, SVP of Engineering at Snowflake. "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."
"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," said Paul Laurence, Co-Founder at Crunchy
Data. "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."
With
the closing of this acquisition, 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. 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
providing companies with an enterprise-ready solution for transactional
applications that require PostgreSQL compatibility.
Snowflake Postgres will be available soon in private preview.