Snowflake plugs PostgreSQL into its AI Data Cloud

Snowflake is launching a PostgreSQL database-as-a-service within its AI data environment to place transactional workloads alongside analytics and AI under a single set of governance rules.

PostgreSQL now runs natively in the AI Data Cloud, allowing teams to power apps and AI agents, analyze business performance and trends using the data from their operations, and build recommendations or forecasting systems without the cost and complexity of building data pipelines and managing multiple vendors, the cloud data platform provider said.

“Say you want to build an app on data that is in Snowflake, but if that app doesn't have a relational OLTP [online transaction processing] database to store the data, they have to go break out of the boundary," Snowflake EVP of product Christian Kleinerman told The Register. "With the PostgreSQL service, our goal is to provide this secure boundary where, if customers build apps or build agents within that ...