Ingest, transform, orchestrate, and govern enterprise data entirely under European jurisdiction — built for regulated industries that cannot compromise on data residency.
€200 in free credits · 30 days · No credit card required
Connections
credentials
Ingest
sources & CDC
Transform
SQL · materialized
Govern
RBAC · audit
Orchestrate
pipelines · cron
100% EU
Data jurisdiction — Amsterdam, NL — by architecture, not configuration
No lock-in
Built on OpenStack open standards — your workloads stay portable
Climate-positive
Warehouse compute on Leafcloud — waste-heat reuse, not carbon offsets
Snowflake, Databricks, and most hyperscaler-native data tools are US-incorporated entities. That means the US CLOUD Act can compel them to disclose data held on their platforms — regardless of where the data is physically stored. An EU data-centre checkbox does not solve this.
For regulated European industries — finance, healthcare, government, insurance — this is not a theoretical risk. It is a buying-decision blocker. GDPR compliance, board-level data sovereignty mandates, and sector-specific regulations all require data to stay under EU law, not merely EU territory.
Molinia is built specifically for this requirement. Data sovereignty is not a configuration option or a regional deployment feature — it is the architecture.
Molinia data stays in the EU. Not as a setting — as a structural property of the platform.
Where data lives
Amsterdam, Netherlands — within the European Union
Infrastructure
Warehouse compute: Leafcloud (Dutch-owned, Amsterdam). Control plane: IONOS VPS (German-owned, EU). Neither is a US entity.
Governing law
EU law, including GDPR — not US federal law
US CLOUD Act
Does not apply — Molinia is not a US person or US-incorporated entity
Verify these claims independently: Leafcloud publishes infrastructure location and ownership information. Dutch corporate registry (KvK) records confirm Leafcloud's entity jurisdiction. IONOS is a subsidiary of United Internet AG (Germany).
Warehouse compute runs on Leafcloud infrastructure in Amsterdam. Leafcloud deploys servers as "Leaf Sites" inside apartment complexes and care homes, reusing server heat as residential hot water — displacing natural gas heating. Leafcloud describes their model as "climate-positive European cloud."
This is a physical process, not an accounting exercise. Molinia does not purchase renewable-energy certificates or carbon offsets. The warehouse compute is climate-positive because the heat it produces displaces fossil-fuel heating in the buildings it serves — per Leafcloud's published infrastructure model.
Scope: This claim applies to warehouse compute. The control plane runs on a separate VPS (IONOS, German-owned, EU jurisdiction), which is not part of Leafcloud's heat-reuse infrastructure.
For ESG-mandated buyers and sustainability-focused data teams, this is a verifiable, concrete claim — not a marketing abstraction. Leafcloud publishes their infrastructure model openly.
Platform
One platform. EU-sovereign. Open standards. No compromises.
Data stays under EU jurisdiction. Hosted on EU-owned infrastructure in Amsterdam — outside US CLOUD Act reach.
Warehouse compute runs on Leafcloud infrastructure in Amsterdam. Server heat reused as residential hot water — physical heat reuse, not carbon offsets.
Leafcloud's modelBuilt on OpenStack open standards. Connect to Azure, AWS, GCP, and on-premises through one integration model. Workloads stay portable.
Roles, privileges, groups, and memberships export as a portable snapshot you can diff, version, and merge-import into another org — with a dry-run preview before anything is written.
Ingestion → SQL transformations → pipeline orchestration → governance in one coherent layer.
Tenant isolation, RBAC, external secret stores, full audit logging, and data lineage — enterprise-ready from day one.
Zero data leaving EU jurisdiction.
Define credentials and access for cloud storage, databases, and APIs. One credential model across Azure, AWS, GCP, and on-premises sources.
Register the tables, files, and streams you want to work with. Land payloads untouched as a raw bronze layer, or let the engine infer schema on the way in — your choice, per source.
Specify where processed data lands — EU-only storage locations. Browse the files already there, and register external tables to query them in place, without ingesting a copy.
Orchestrate ingest and SQL transformation steps on a cron schedule. Multi-step pipelines with run history, failure alerts, and warehouse wake-on-demand — all within EU jurisdiction.
Connections→Data Sources→Locations→Pipelines→EU-governed output
Not a roadmap. Every capability below is shipped and reachable from the product today.
Write SQL, chart the results, and pin them to shared dashboards with drag-to-reorder and auto-refresh.
Register external tables over files already sitting in your object storage and query them where they are — no ingest, no second copy, no duplicate storage bill.
Land the source payload untouched for a bronze layer, or let the engine infer the schema during ingest. Text, fixed-width, XML, CSV, Parquet, and CDC streams.
Query any table as it stood at a past point in time with AT(), backed by automatic snapshots and a coverage view that tells you how far back you can go.
Publish read-only, row-filtered datasets to other organisations. Consumers mount and query live data — nothing is copied, and the filter is enforced provider-side.
Policy-driven row filters and column masking (full, partial, or email-shaped), enforced in the query engine rather than bolted on in a BI tool.
SQL macros and stored procedures, sandboxed JavaScript UDFs, and Python stored procedures — running inside the same EU jurisdiction as the data.
Scoped, least-privilege API keys for pipelines and integrations, granted at creation and revocable without touching a human account.
Per-warehouse cost dashboards, budget alerts, projected end-of-month spend, and monthly usage statements with invoice-ready CSV export.
On the axes that matter for regulated European enterprises.
| Capability | Molinia | Snowflake | Databricks |
|---|---|---|---|
| EU data jurisdiction (default) | ✓ Amsterdam, NL (by architecture) | ✗ US entity (CLOUD Act applies) | ✗ US entity (CLOUD Act applies) |
| Not subject to US CLOUD Act | ✓ Yes | ✗ No | ✗ No |
| Open standards / no lock-in | ✓ OpenStack-based | ✗ Proprietary | ✗ Proprietary |
| Climate-positive warehouse compute | ✓ Leafcloud waste-heat model | ✗ No | ✗ No |
| Ingestion, transform, orchestrate & govern | ✓ Shipped — ingest, transform, orchestrate, govern | ~ Partial (ecosystem needed) | ~ Partial (ecosystem needed) |
| GDPR-oriented architecture | ✓ EU data, audit log, RoPA, residency attestation | ~ Configurable | ~ Configurable |
✓ = supported · ✗ = not supported · ~ = partial / configurable
Built for regulated industries
Finance, healthcare, insurance, and government operate under frameworks that require data to stay under EU jurisdiction — not merely EU territory. Molinia is designed for this requirement from the ground up.
DORA, MiFID II, and EBA guidelines require demonstrable EU data sovereignty. US CLOUD Act exposure is a material regulatory risk.
Patient data under GDPR and national health data laws. A US-incorporated vendor creates structural compliance risk regardless of datacenter location.
Government mandates for national cloud infrastructure and data residency. EU-owned compute is the baseline — not a premium tier.
Solvency II, EIOPA guidelines, and sector-specific data localisation requirements. Personal data must not be accessible under foreign law.
You pay for warehouse compute by the minute and storage by the GB-month. There is no seat fee, no platform fee, and no annual commitment. Warehouses auto-suspend when idle; billing is per minute after a 60-second minimum — so an idle workspace costs nothing but storage.
xs warehouse| Size | Credits / hour | € / hour (ex-VAT) |
|---|---|---|
| xs | 1 | €1.25 |
| s | 2 | €2.50 |
| m | 4 | €5.00 |
| l | 8 | €10.00 |
| xl | 16 | €20.00 |
| 2xl | 32 | €40.00 |
| 3xl | 48 | €60.00 |
Storage: €0.12 per GB per month · No egress fees · Prices ex-VAT; VAT applied per your organisation's country.
New workspaces get €200 in credits, free for 30 days — no card. Every warehouse size is unlocked during the trial, up to two running at once. That is 160 hours on an xs warehouse, or 20 hours on an l.
Your workspace stays alive on the free floor: xs warehouses, one running at a time, 2 warehouses, and 5 credits a month that renew. Storage on free workspaces is purged after 30 days of inactivity. To go beyond, talk to us.
Dedicated nodes, Dutch data-residency terms, customer-managed keys, and audit exports. Talk to us.
Molinia applies security controls at the platform level, not as add-ons. Every tenant is isolated. Every action is logged. Every secret stays in a dedicated secret store.
Tenant isolation
Hard multi-tenancy boundary between organizations. No cross-tenant data access.
Role-based access control
Least-privilege model. Fine-grained permissions per resource, per user, per team.
External secret stores
Credentials never stored in the platform database. Dedicated secret management by design.
Tamper-evident audit trail
Every data access, pipeline run, and configuration change is logged in a hash-chained record you can verify, export as NDJSON or CSV, and archive to cold storage. Each export bundle is signed with HMAC-SHA256, so the file a regulator or auditor receives stays verifiable after it leaves the platform.
Data lineage
Track data origin, transformation, and destination across every pipeline.
SSO / SAML / OIDC
Enterprise identity integration. Bring your existing IdP, and require two-factor authentication across the whole workspace.
Try the platform yourself or talk to the Molinia team — we'll show you how it works and whether it fits your data residency and compliance requirements.
€200 in free credits · 30 days · Every warehouse size · No credit card.
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