JDBC Driver for Snowflake
Overview
This Snowflake JDBC driver is provided by Snowflake and can be used in the Collibra Catalog.
To register Snowflake-provided sources, use the section ‘Collibra provided drivers’ in Collibra Catalog. Leveraging this driver, Collibra Catalog will be able to register database information and extract the structure of the source into its schemas, tables and columns.
Details on Snowflake provided JDBC driver can be found in the Snowflake documentation.
JDBC drivers can retrieve the following database components:
- Schemas
- Tables
- Views
- Columns
- Primary keys
- Foreign keys
To generate authentication key pairs, please use OpenSSL 3.4.0. Download packages are available for Linux/macOS and Windows (Win64).
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Release Notes
New features and updates
- Added warning when using plain HTTP endpoints for OAuth authentication.
- Added getRole, getWarehouse, and getDatabase API extension methods.
- Removed the io.netty.tryReflectionSetAccessible system property setting, as it is no longer needed with modern Arrow/Netty versions.
Bug fixes
- Fixed ObjectMapper initialization when DATE_OUTPUT_FORMAT is specified.
- Fixed Netty native library conflict in thin JAR packaging.
- Bumped Netty to 4.1.132.Final to address CVE-2026-33870 and CVE-2026-33871.
- Fixed driver failure when a security manager prohibits access to system properties, environment variables, or security provider modifications.
- Fixed crash in getColumns when a table contained an unrecognized column type.
- Fixed session expiration when multiple sessions have different heartbeat intervals.
- Fixed query context not being merged from failed query responses.
Compatibility
- Snowflake (all editions)
- Collibra Data Intelligence On-Prem
- Collibra Data Intelligence Cloud
Dependency
- Collibra 2026.05 or higher
License and Usage Requirements
Release History
Release Notes
- Upgraded aws-sdk to 1.12.792 and added STS dependency.
- Added RHEL 9 support.
- Added support for identity impersonation when using workload identity federation.
- For Google Cloud Platform, added the
workloadIdentityImpersonationPathconnection parameter forauthenticator=WORKLOAD_IDENTITYallowing workloads to authenticate as a different identity through transitive service account impersonation. - For AWS, added the
workloadIdentityImpersonationPathconnection parameter forauthenticator=WORKLOAD_IDENTITYallowing workloads to authenticate through transitive IAM role impersonation.
- For Google Cloud Platform, added the
- Bumped grpc-java to 1.76.0 to address CVE-2025-58056 from transient dependency.
Compatibility
- Snowflake (all editions)
- Collibra Data Intelligence On-Prem
- Collibra Data Intelligence Cloud
Dependency
License and Usage Requirements
Release Notes
Compatibility
- Snowflake (all editions)
- Collibra Data Intelligence Cloud
- Collibra Data Intelligence On-Prem
Dependency
License and Usage Requirements
Release Notes
- Added support for disabling connection caching.
- Added the
PRIVATE_KEY_BASE64connection parameter to support base64-encoded private keys. - Added the following connection properties to support setting timeouts:
HTTP_CLIENT_CONNECTION_TIMEOUTandHTTP_CLIENT_SOCKET_TIMEOUTconnection properties.BROWSER_RESPONSE_TIMEOUTconnection property to specify a browser timeout.
- Upgraded the following dependencies:
Arrowto version 17.0.0threeten-bpto version 1.6.9
Compatibility
- Snowflake (all editions)
- Collibra Data Intelligence Cloud
- Collibra Data Intelligence On-Prem
Dependency
License and Usage Requirements
Release Notes
Compatibility
- Snowflake (all editions)
- Collibra Data Intelligence Cloud
- Collibra Data Intelligence On-Prem
Dependency
License and Usage Requirements
Release Notes
Compatibility
- Snowflake (all editions)
- Collibra Data Intelligence Cloud
- Collibra Data Intelligence On-Prem
Dependency
- N/
License and Usage Requirements
Release Notes
Compatibility
- Snowflake (all editions)
- Collibra Data Intelligence Cloud
- Collibra Data Intelligence On-Prem
Dependency
- N/A
License and Usage Requirements
Release Notes
We have tested latest Snowflake Native driver ( 3.13.20)
Compatibility
- Snowflake (all editions)
- Collibra Data Intelligence Cloud
- Collibra Data Intelligence On-Prem
Dependency
- N/A
License and Usage Requirements
Release Notes
The driver has been certified with the username/password authentication scheme for the following:
- Ingestion of technical metadata from the source.
- Profiling of the registered data source and calculation of statistics that describe the data.
Compatibility
- Snowflake (all editions)
- Collibra Data Intelligence Cloud
- Collibra Data Intelligence On-Prem
Dependency
- N/A
License and Usage Requirements
Release Notes
The driver has been certified with the username/password authentication scheme for the following:
- Ingestion of technical metadata from the source.
- Profiling of the registered data source and calculation of statistics that describe the data.
Compatibility
- Snowflake (all editions)
- Collibra Data Intelligence Cloud
- Collibra Data Intelligence On-Prem
Dependency
- N/A
License and Usage Requirements
Release Notes
The driver has been certified with the username/password authentication scheme for the following:
- Ingestion of technical metadata from the source.
- Profiling of the registered data source and calculation of statistics that describe the data.
Compatibility
- Snowflake (all editions)
- Collibra Data Intelligence Cloud
- Collibra Data Intelligence On-Prem
Dependency
- N/A
License and Usage Requirements
Release Notes
The driver has been certified with the username/password authentication scheme for the following:
- Ingestion of technical metadata from the source.
- Profiling of the registered data source and calculation of statistics that describe the data.
Compatibility
- Snowflake (all editions)
- Collibra Data Intelligence Cloud
- Collibra Data Intelligence On-Prem
Dependency
- N/A
License and Usage Requirements
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Technical Support
Support is provided for the template as downloaded from the Marketplace, without changes to the way it works. These drivers are designed to only work with Collibra Catalog and cannot be used for other purposes.
Vendor supported resources
For additional information on this driver, please visit Snowflake documentation:
https://docs.snowflake.net/manuals/user-guide/jdbc-download.html
Use of this solution requires Collibra Data Intelligence Platform with proper entitlements. Please contact your account representative if you have any questions.


