Snowflake Destination Plugin

1. Direct (easy but not recommended for production or large data sets): This is the default mode of operation where CQ plugin will stream the results directly to the Snowflake database. There is no additional setup needed apart from authentication to Snowflake.
2. Loading via CSV/JSON from a remote storage: This is the standard way of loading data into Snowflake, it is recommended for production and large data sets. This mode requires a remote storage (e.g. S3, GCS, Azure Blob Storage) and a Snowflake stage to be created. The CQ plugin will stream the results to the remote storage. You can then load those files via a cronjob or via SnowPipe. This method is still in the works and will be updated soon with a guide.

Example Config #

kind: destination
spec:
  name: snowflake
  path: cloudquery/snowflake
  registry: cloudquery
  version: "v4.3.7"
  write_mode: "append"
  # Learn more about the configuration options at https://cql.ink/snowflake_destination
  spec:
    connection_string: "${SNOWFLAKE_CONNECTION_STRING}"
    # Optional parameters
    # migrate_concurrency: 1
    # batch_size: 1000 # 1K entries
    # batch_size_bytes: 4194304 # 4 MiB

Authentication #

• A username and password in the DSN:

  kind: destination
  spec:
    name: snowflake
    ...
    spec:
      connection_string: "user:pass@account/db/schema?warehouse=wh"

• A private key inline:

  kind: destination
  spec:
    name: snowflake
    ...
    spec:
      connection_string: "user@account/database/schema?warehouse=wh"
      private_key: |
        -----BEGIN PRIVATE KEY-----
        MIIEvgIBADANBgkqhkiG9w0BAQEFAASCBKgwggSkAgEAAoIBAQC2ajPRIbPtbxZ1
        3DONLA02eZJuCzsgIkBWov/Me5TL6cKN0gnY+mbA8OnNCH+9HSzgiU9P8XhTUrIN
        85diD+rj6uK+E0sSyxGk6HG17TyR5oBq8nz2hbZlbaNi/HO9qYoHQgAgMq908YBz
        ...
        DUmOIrBYEMf2nDTlTu/QVcKb
        -----END PRIVATE KEY-----

• A private key included from a file:

  kind: destination
  spec:
    name: snowflake
    ...
    spec:
      connection_string: "user@account/database/schema?warehouse=wh"
      private_key: "${file:./private.key}"

  where ./private.key is PEM-encoded private key file with contents of the form:

  -----BEGIN PRIVATE KEY-----
  MIIEvgIBADANBgkqhkiG9w0BAQEFAASCBKgwggSkAgEAAoIBAQC2ajPRIbPtbxZ1
  3DONLA02eZJuCzsgIkBWov/Me5TL6cKN0gnY+mbA8OnNCH+9HSzgiU9P8XhTUrIN
  85diD+rj6uK+E0sSyxGk6HG17TyR5oBq8nz2hbZlbaNi/HO9qYoHQgAgMq908YBz
  ...
  DUmOIrBYEMf2nDTlTu/QVcKb
  -----END PRIVATE KEY-----

Private Key Authentication Setup #

openssl pkcs8 -topk8 -nocrypt -in enc.key -out dec.key

Snowflake Spec #

• connection_string (string) (required)

  Snowflake connection_string.

  Example:

  # user[:password]@account/database/schema?warehouse=user_warehouse[&param1=value1&paramN=valueN]
  # or
  # user[:password]@account/database?warehouse=user_warehouse[&param1=value1&paramN=valueN]
  # or
  # user[:password]@host:port/database/schema?account=user_account&warehouse=user_warehouse[&param1=value1&paramN=valueN]
  # or
  # host:port/database/schema?account=user_account&warehouse=user_warehouse[&param1=value1&paramN=valueN]

  From Snowflake documentation:

  account - Name assigned to your Snowflake account. If you are not on us-west-2 or AWS deployment, append the region and platform to the end, e.g., <account>.<region> or <account>.<region>.<platform>.
• private_key (string) (optional)

  A PEM-encoded private key for connecting to snowflake. Equivalent to adding authenticator=snowflake_jwt&privateKey=... to the connection_string but parses, validates, and correctly encodes the key for use with snowflake.
• migrate_concurrency (integer) (optional) (default: 1)

  By default, tables are migrated one at a time. This option allows you to migrate multiple tables concurrently. This can be useful if you have a lot of tables to migrate and want to speed up the process.

  Setting this to a negative number means no limit.
• batch_size (integer) (optional) (default: 1000)

  Number of records to batch together before sending to the database.
• batch_size_bytes (integer) (optional) (default: 4194304 (= 4 MiB))

  Number of bytes (as Arrow buffer size) to batch together before sending to the database.
• leave_stage_files (boolean) (optional) (default: false)

  If set to true, intermediary files used to load data to the Snowflake stage are left in the temp directory. This can be useful for debugging purposes.

Underlying library #