Dated: October 2025
Customers frequently ask about various approaches to integrating Snowflake with the ArcGIS platform. At Snowflake, we have seen constant growth in customer adoption of Snowflake for various GIS-based use case scenarios. The diagram below lays out the different access patterns between the two platforms.
You can get to know more details about these integration points here: ArcGIS and Snowflake.
Regardless, customers have constantly asked us to develop integrations/solutions that avoid data movement, specifically large datasets. One concern is data transfer cost in and out; another is data governance. As it is, customers have developed custom external Python solutions, which would involve exporting the data from Snowflake, performing Geospatial analysis (with ArcGIS SDK), ingesting the data back into Snowflake, and/or uploading the datasets as feature layers into ArcGIS.
