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 Replication
• 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
• Materialized 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 compliance
• 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.