About the Snowflake JDBC connector

Updated: June 5, 2026

Collibra and Snowflake can be connected through a Snowflake JDBC connector.

General information

Field

Description

Data source

Snowflake

Supported driver version

4.1.0 (supported on Collibra Platform 2026.05 or later)

Supported versions

All editions of Snowflake (Standard, Enterprise and Business Critical).

Note This connector supports metadata ingestion from Snowflake Data Shares.

Connection string

jdbc:snowflake://<accountname>.snowflakecomputing.com

More information about the parameters in the connection string

Parameter Description

accountname

The full name of your account (provided by Snowflake).

Warning Your account name should not be prefixed with https://.

Note Your full account name might include additional segments that identify the region and cloud platform where your account is hosted.

See examples

Assuming your account name is xy12345, the following table gives examples of full account names for different platforms and regions.

Cloud Platform / Region	Full Account Name
AWS
US West (Oregon)	xy12345
US East (Ohio)	xy12345.us-east-2.aws
US East (N. Virginia)	xy12345.us-east-1
US East (Commercial Gov - N. Virginia)	xy12345.us-east-1-gov.aws
Canada (Central)	xy12345.ca-central-1.aws
EU (Ireland)	xy12345.eu-west-1
EU (Frankfurt)	xy12345.eu-central-1
Asia Pacific (Tokyo)	xy12345.ap-northeast-1.aws
Asia Pacific (Mumbai)	xy12345.ap-south-1.aws
Asia Pacific (Singapore)	xy12345.ap-southeast-1
Asia Pacific (Sydney)	xy12345.ap-southeast-2
GCP
US Central1 (Iowa)	xy12345.us-central1.gcp
Europe West2 (London)	xy12345.europe-west2.gcp
Europe West4 (Netherlands)	xy12345.europe-west4.gcp
Azure
West US 2 (Washington)	xy12345.west-us-2.azure
East US 2 (Virginia)	xy12345.east-us-2.azure
US Gov Virginia	xy12345.us-gov-virginia.azure
Canada Central (Toronto)	xy12345.canada-central.azure
West Europe (Netherlands)	xy12345.west-europe.azure
Switzerland North (Zurich)	xy12345.switzerland-north.azure
Southeast Asia (Singapore)	xy12345.southeast-asia.azure
Australia East (New Wales)	xy12345.australia-east.azure

Warning

If your Snowflake Edition is VPS, please contact Snowflake Support for details about your account name.
If AWS PrivateLink is enabled for your account, your account name requires an additional privatelink segment. For more information, see the AWS PrivateLink & Snowflake section of the Snowflake documentation.

Driver class name

net.snowflake.client.jdbc.SnowflakeDriver

Offering type

Third party

Certified for Edge?

Yes, since before 2022.08

Supports source-driven random sampling?

Yes

Supports registration of multiple databases?

Yes

Supports registration of source tags?

Yes

Supports data usage and calculation of popularity score?

Yes

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