Company
Date Published
Author
Javier de la Torre
Word count
831
Language
English
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None

Summary

The CARTO Spatial Extension for Snowflake brings native spatial analytics capabilities to the cloud data warehouse, enhancing performance and convenience through parallelization and direct integration with BI tools. The extension is distributed as a set of User Defined Functions (UDFs) that extend Snowflake's capabilities for geospatial analysis, providing support for spatial indexes, measurements, and advanced functions like Voronoi diagrams and great circle calculations. With seamless access to location data on the Snowflake Data Marketplace, users can leverage the full power of Spatial SQL to analyze and visualize geospatial data in a cloud-native environment. The extension is available as an open-source release under a BSD license, with advanced capabilities requiring a subscription to the CARTO platform.