Snowflake Horizon Catalog

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What the maker publishes

AI guardrails

AI guardrails can detect, redact and block sensitive information in agent outputs before delivery. source

API billing

Snowflake documents a planned charge of 0.5 credits per million Horizon REST API calls, with cross-region egress charged separately. source

Company founded

Snowflake was founded in 2012. source

Company headquarters

Crunchbase lists Snowflake headquarters in San Mateo, California, United States. source

Company legal name

Crunchbase identifies the maker as Snowflake Inc., a public company traded as NYSE:SNOW. source

Company size

LinkedIn lists Snowflake in the 5,001–10,000 employee range. source

Connectors

Preview metadata connectors cover BI tools such as Tableau, Power BI, Looker and ThoughtSpot, databases such as PostgreSQL, Oracle and SQL Server, and dbt. source

Connector security

Connector credentials are stored in an encrypted Snowflake-managed layer and SaaS connections require TLS 1.2 or newer. source

Data quality

Continuous data-quality monitoring supports freshness checks, alerts and root-cause analysis. source

Documentation

Snowflake provides dedicated Horizon guides, developer references, tutorials and release notes. source

External catalogs

Catalog-linked databases connect Horizon to ecosystems including AWS Glue and Azure OneLake. source

Founded

2012 source

Iceberg interoperability

It reads and writes Apache Iceberg tables and exposes an Iceberg REST Catalog API for Spark, Flink and Trino with governance applied. source

Iceberg limitations

Documented REST limitations include unsupported remote/native tables in some paths, no equality-delete or branch/tag writes, and unsupported cloned tables with vended credentials. source

Internal marketplace

Teams can discover and share governed data products internally without copying the data. source

Limit: catalog gaps

Reddit users report missing business glossary features, unclear quality indicators, incomplete asset-status signals and administrator tasks that require code. source

Limit: cost

TrustRadius and Gartner reviewers repeatedly flag Snowflake’s pricing and cost management as concerns. source

Limit: portability

TrustRadius reviewers report weaker multi-cloud portability and vendor-lock-in concerns around proprietary capabilities. source

Limit: refresh reliability

A Reddit discussion reports external Iceberg tables can stop refreshing without notice and describes some features as immature. source

Lineage

Horizon provides column-level and end-to-end lineage spanning Snowflake and connected external databases and BI systems. source

Metadata permissions

Metadata connector privileges allow users to curate metadata and lineage without granting access to the underlying data. source

Mobile app

Snowflake CoWork provides conversational AI, specialized agents, file and photo attachments, voice input and biometric login for accounts configured with CoWork. source

Natural-language discovery

Snowflake CoCo searches tables, dashboards, notebooks, agents and external BI metadata using natural language. source

News: Horizon Context preview

On October 12, 2026, Snowflake released Horizon Context in preview with external metadata sources, editing and expanded lineage. source

Checked against the maker's pages on 15 Oct 2026.