Connect Postgres to Snowflake destination

with open-source ELT

Extract and load (ELT) your Postgres data into Snowflake destination in minutes with our open-source data integration connector.

Eliminate the time you spend on building and maintaining your data pipelines by integrating your data with Airbyte instead.
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Start analyzing your Postgres data in minutes

1

Select your source

Just authenticate your Postgres account and destination, and your new Snowflake destination data integration will adapt to schema / API changes.

2

Select your destination

Connect to Snowflake destination or one of 50+ Airbyte data sources through simple account authentication

3

Sync your Data

This includes selecting the data you want to extract - streams and columns -, the sync frequency, where in Snowflake destination you want that data to be loaded.

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As your tools and edge cases grow, you deserve an extensible and open ELT solution that eliminates the time you spend on building and maintaining data pipelines

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Airbyte’s catalog of 300+ pre-built, no-code connectors is the largest in the industry and is doubling every year, thanks to its open-source community, while closed-source catalogs have plateaued.

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Build custom connectors in 10 min with our Connector Development Kit (CDK), and get them maintained by us or our community. Add them to Airbyte to enable your whole team to leverage them.
Customize ANY Airbyte connectors to address Your custom needs. Our connector’s code is open-source, so you can edit it as you see fit.

Reliability at every level

Airbyte ensure your team’s time is no longer time spent on maintenance with our reliability SLAs on our GA connectors.
Airbyte will also give you visibility and control of your data freshness at the stream level for all your connections.

It’s never been easier to integrate your Postgres data into Snowflake destination

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FAQs

What is ETL?

ETL, an acronym for Extract, Transform, Load, is a vital data integration process. It involves extracting data from diverse sources, transforming it into a usable format, and loading it into a database, data warehouse or data lake. This process enables meaningful data analysis, enhancing business intelligence.

What is Postgres?

An object-relational database management system, PostgreSQL is able to handle a wide range of workloads, supports multiple standards, and is cross-platform, running on numerous operating systems including Microsoft Windows, Solaris, Linux, and FreeBSD. It is highly extensible, and supports more than 12 procedural languages, Spatial data support, Gin and GIST Indexes, and more. Many webs, mobile, and analytics applications use PostgreSQL as the primary data warehouse or data store.

What is Snowflake destination?

A cloud data platform, Snowflake Data Cloud provides a warehouse-as-a-service built specifically for the cloud. The Snowflake platform is designed to empower many types of data workloads, and offers secure, immediate, governed access to a comprehensive network of data. Snowflake’s innovative technology goes above the capabilities of the ordinary database, supplying users all the functionality of database storage, query processing, and cloud services in one package.

What data can you extract from Postgres?

PostgreSQL gives access to a wide range of data types, including:  

1. Numeric data types: This includes integers, floating-point numbers, and decimal numbers.  

2. Character data types: This includes strings, text, and character arrays.  

3. Date and time data types: This includes dates, times, and timestamps.  

4. Boolean data types: This includes true/false values.  

5. Network address data types: This includes IP addresses and MAC addresses.  

6. Geometric data types: This includes points, lines, and polygons.  

7. Array data types: This includes arrays of any of the above data types.  

8. JSON and JSONB data types: This includes JSON objects and arrays.  

9. XML data types: This includes XML documents.  

10. Composite data types: This includes user-defined data types that can contain multiple fields of different data types.  

Overall, PostgreSQL's API provides access to a wide range of data types, making it a versatile and powerful tool for data management and analysis.

How do I transfer data from Postgres to Snowflake destination?

This can be done by building a data pipeline manually, usually a Python script (you can leverage a tool as Apache Airflow for this). This process can take more than a full week of development. Or it can be done in minutes on Airbyte in three easy steps: 
1. Set up Postgres as a source connector (using Auth, or usually an API key)
2. Set up Snowflake destination as a destination connector
3. Define which data you want to transfer and how frequently
You can choose to self-host the pipeline using Airbyte Open Source or have it managed for you with Airbyte Cloud. 

What are top ETL tools to extract data from

The most prominent ETL tools to transfer data from Postgres to Snowflake destination include:
- Airbyte
- Fivetran
- StitchData
- Matillion
- Talend Data Integration
These tools help in extracting data from Postgres and various sources (APIs, databases, and more), transforming it efficiently, and loading it into Snowflake destination and other databases, data warehouses and data lakes, enhancing data management capabilities.

What is ELT?

ELT, standing for Extract, Load, Transform, is a modern take on the traditional ETL data integration process. In ELT, data is first extracted from various sources, loaded directly into a data warehouse, and then transformed. This approach enhances data processing speed, analytical flexibility and autonomy.

Difference between ETL and ELT?

ETL and ELT are critical data integration strategies with key differences. ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) transforms data before loading, ideal for structured data. In contrast, ELT (Extract, Load, Transform) loads data before transformation, perfect for processing large, diverse data sets in modern data warehouses. ELT is becoming the new standard as it offers a lot more flexibility and autonomy to data analysts.

Postgres to Snowflake destination in minutes.

ETL your Postgres data into Snowflake destination, in minutes, for free, with our open-source data integration connectors. In the format you need with post-load transformation.

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connector yet. Scroll down to upvote and prioritize it, or check our Connector Development Kit to build it within 2 hours.
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Select the Postgres data that you want to replicate.

The Postgres source connector can be used to sync the following tables:

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About Postgres

An object-relational database management system, PostgreSQL is able to handle a wide range of workloads, supports multiple standards, and is cross-platform, running on numerous operating systems including Microsoft Windows, Solaris, Linux, and FreeBSD. It is highly extensible, and supports more than 12 procedural languages, Spatial data support, Gin and GIST Indexes, and more. Many webs, mobile, and analytics applications use PostgreSQL as the primary data warehouse or data store.

Start analyzing your Postgres data in minutes with the right data transformation

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Full control over the data

You select the data you want to replicate, and this for each destination you want to replicate your

Postgres

data to.

Normalized schemas

You can opt for getting the raw data, or to explode all nested API objects in separate tables.

Custom transformation via dbt

You can add any dbt transformation model you want and even sequence them in the order you need, so you get the data in the exact format you need at your cloud data warehouse, lake or data base.

Airbyte is designed to address 100% of your Snowflake destination needs

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Scheduled updates

Automate replications with recurring incremental updates to

Snowflake destination

.

play
Replicate Salesforce data to Snowflake with incremental

Manual full refresh

Easily re-sync all your data when

Snowflake destination

has been desynchronized from the data source.

Change Data Capture for databases

Ensure your database are up to date with log-based incremental replication.

play
Check how log replication works for PostgreSQL

About Snowflake destination

A cloud data platform, Snowflake Data Cloud provides a warehouse-as-a-service built specifically for the cloud. The Snowflake platform is designed to empower many types of data workloads, and offers secure, immediate, governed access to a comprehensive network of data. Snowflake’s innovative technology goes above the capabilities of the ordinary database, supplying users all the functionality of database storage, query processing, and cloud services in one package.

Why Choose Airbyte for your Postgres and Snowflake destination data integration

Airbyte is the new open-source ETL platform, and enables you to replicate your

Postgres

data in the destination of your choice, in minutes.

Maintenance-free

Heading

connector

Just authenticate your Postgres account and destination, and your new Postgres data integration will adapt to schema / API changes.

Extensible as open-sourced

With Airbyte, you can easily adapt the open-source Postgres ETL connector to your exact needs. All connectors are open-sourced.

No more security compliance issues​

Use Airbyte’s open-source edition to test your data pipeline without going through 3rd-party services. This will make your security team happy.

Normalized schemas​

Engineers can opt for raw data, analysts for normalized schemas. Airbyte offers several options that you can leverage with dbt.

Orchestration & scheduling​

Airbyte integrates with your existing stack. It can run with Airflow & Kubernetes and more are coming.

Monitoring & alerts on your terms​

Delays happen. We log everything and let you know when issues arise. Use our webhook to get notifications the way you want.

PostgreSQL To Snowflake in minutes

ETL your Postgres data into Snowflake destination, in minutes, for free, with our open-source data integration connectors. In the format you need with post-load transformation.

We don't support the
Postgres
connector yet. Scroll down to upvote and prioritize it, or check our Connector Development Kit to build it within 2 hours.
We don't support the
Snowflake destination
connector yet. Scroll down to upvote and prioritize it, or check our Connector Development Kit to build it within 2 hours.
We don't support the
Postgres
and
Snowflake destination
connectors yet. Scroll down to upvote and prioritize them, or check our Connector Development Kit to build it within 2 hours.

Airbyte is designed to address 100% of your Postgres database needs.

Full control over the data

The 

Postgres

 source does not alter the schema present in your database. Depending on the destination connected to this source, however, the schema may be altered.

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Scheduled updates

Automate replications with recurring incremental updates.

Log-based incremental replication

Ensure your database are up to date with log-based incremental replication.

play
Check how log replication works for PostgreSQL

About Postgres

An object-relational database management system, PostgreSQL is able to handle a wide range of workloads, supports multiple standards, and is cross-platform, running on numerous operating systems including Microsoft Windows, Solaris, Linux, and FreeBSD. It is highly extensible, and supports more than 12 procedural languages, Spatial data support, Gin and GIST Indexes, and more. Many webs, mobile, and analytics applications use PostgreSQL as the primary data warehouse or data store.

Start analyzing your Postgres data in minutes with the right data transformation

airbyte data transformation screenshot

Full control over the data

You select the data you want to replicate, and this for each destination you want to replicate your Postgres data to.

Normalized schemas

You can opt for getting the raw data, or to explode all nested API objects in separate tables.

Custom transformation via dbt

You can add any dbt transformation model you want and even sequence them in the order you need, so you get the data in the exact format you need at your cloud data warehouse, lake or data base.

Airbyte is designed to address 100% of your Snowflake destination needs

calendar icon

Scheduled updates

Automate replications with recurring incremental updates to Snowflake destination.

play
Replicate Salesforce data to Snowflake with incremental

Manual full refresh

Easily re-sync all your data when Snowflake destination has been desynchronized from the data source.

Change Data Capture for databases

Ensure your database are up to date with log-based incremental replication.

play
Check how log replication works for PostgreSQL

About Snowflake destination

A cloud data platform, Snowflake Data Cloud provides a warehouse-as-a-service built specifically for the cloud. The Snowflake platform is designed to empower many types of data workloads, and offers secure, immediate, governed access to a comprehensive network of data. Snowflake’s innovative technology goes above the capabilities of the ordinary database, supplying users all the functionality of database storage, query processing, and cloud services in one package.

Why choose Airbyte for your Postgres and Snowflake destination data integration.

Airbyte is the new open-source ETL platform, and enables you to replicate your Postgres data in the destination of your choice, in minutes.

Maintenance-free

Heading

connector

Just authenticate your

Postgres

account and destination, and your new

Postgres

data integration will adapt to schema / API changes.

Extensible as open-sourced

With Airbyte, you can easily adapt the open-source

Postgres

ETL connector to your exact needs. All connectors are open-sourced.

No more security compliance issues​

Use Airbyte’s open-source edition to test your data pipeline without going through 3rd-party services. This will make your security team happy.

Normalized schemas​

Engineers can opt for raw data, analysts for normalized schemas. Airbyte offers several options that you can leverage with dbt.

Orchestration & scheduling​

Airbyte integrates with your existing stack. It can run with Airflow & Kubernetes and more are coming.

Monitoring & alerts on your terms​

Delays happen. We log everything and let you know when issues arise. Use our webhook to get notifications the way you want.