Achieving 41 GB/sec on 1 Table: Benchmarking Elastic Channels for Snowpipe Streaming
Snowflake, Monday, October 19th, 2026
Snowflake benchmarks Elastic Channels for Snowpipe Streaming, reaching 41 GB/s of ingestion into a single table.
Snowflake recently made Elastic Channels for Snowpipe Streaming generally available, letting applications, devices and services send events directly while Snowflake manages ingestion scale.
To test performance, the team streamed a full ski season's worth of simulated resort sales into the system.
The benchmark reached 41 GB per second into a single table.
The post details the test setup, results and what they mean for high-volume streaming workloads.