# How Figma uses Snowflake

As published on [figma.com](https://www.figma.com/blog/how-figma-scaled-to-multiple-databases/), April 2023. Captured by usedby on 2026-10-27.

- Company: [Figma](https://www.usedby.ai/companies/figma.md)
- Tool: [Snowflake](https://www.usedby.ai/tools/snowflake.md)
- Industry: [DevTools & Infrastructure](https://www.usedby.ai/companies/industry/devtools-infrastructure.md)
- Teams: Infrastructure, Databases

## The use case: how Figma deploys Snowflake

Figma's engineering team added runtime validators to its ActiveRecord queries that send production query and transaction information into Snowflake, its cloud data warehouse. They analyzed this data to find queries and transactions that consistently touch the same group of tables, which helped pick tables to move into separate databases through vertical partitioning.

Summary written by usedby from the source page, in English. The figures are those of Snowflake and Figma, not ours.

> These validators sent production query and transaction information (such as caller location and tables involved) into Snowflake, our data warehouse in the cloud. We used this information to look for queries and transactions that consistently referenced the same group of tables.

## Other AI tools used by Figma

- [Claude](https://www.usedby.ai/tools/claude.md) — Confirmed
- [Clay](https://www.usedby.ai/tools/clay.md) — Confirmed
- [Coda](https://www.usedby.ai/tools/coda.md) — Confirmed
- [Enterpret](https://www.usedby.ai/tools/enterpret.md) — Confirmed
- [Gemini](https://www.usedby.ai/tools/gemini.md) — Confirmed
- [Hex](https://www.usedby.ai/tools/hex.md) — Confirmed

## Snowflake users in DevTools & Infrastructure

- [Boomi](https://www.usedby.ai/companies/boomi.md) — Declared by the company
- [Docker](https://www.usedby.ai/companies/docker.md) — Declared by the company
- [Linear](https://www.usedby.ai/companies/linear.md) — Declared by the company
- [New Relic](https://www.usedby.ai/companies/new-relic.md) — Declared by the company
- [ClickUp](https://www.usedby.ai/companies/clickup.md) — Signal

## What usedby checked

We compared the story with its live page on 2026-10-27.

- Checked: the passage quoted above is copied word for word from the page, near the name of Figma.
- Checked: the publication date is read from the page’s own metadata, never guessed.
- Checked: Figma uses Snowflake. Confirmed line. Latest check across sources: 2026-10-27.
- Not checked: the result itself. We quote it; we did not measure it.

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