# The company says existing architectures force organizations to move data between platforms.

*genai · news · 2026-04-08 · SiliconANGLE News*

## Key points

- Snowflake will soon support Apache Iceberg V3, enabling production-ready interoperability across data and governance.
- Iceberg V3 adds semi-structured and geospatial data support, row-level lineage, and nanosecond timestamp precision.
- Snowflake's Apache Polaris catalog enables portable governance policies, decoupling access controls from specific platforms.
- The pg_lake PostgreSQL extension allows direct querying and writing to data lake formats without ETL pipelines.
- Snowflake is backing Open Semantic Interchange to standardize business definitions for improved AI model accuracy.

**Companies:** Snowflake Inc.

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