Some teams need and use both BigQuery and Snowflake - for different purposes, inplementing data mesh principles. It used to be tougher to make these two platforms work flawlessly together, but..
BigQuery Cross-cloud Lakehouse now supports Snowflake as a remote catalog provider in Preview. 🧵
Google says teams can configure federated catalogs that query data stored in Snowflake directly from Google Cloud, using either BigQuery or Apache Spark.
- Announced 13 July 2026
- Snowflake is a remote catalog provider in Preview
- Query through BigQuery or Apache Spark
- Query Snowflake-held data directly from Google Cloud
- No data migration or complex ETL pipeline required for this path
My honest take: federation is becoming a default design choice when the data must remain where it is.
📚 Source: https://docs.cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/release-notes
P.S. Where does your team move data today mainly because querying it in place was not an option? 👇
