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
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
Most major data platforms are operated by companies headquartered outside the EU. For them, home-country law — such as the US CLOUD Act — can reach data held on their platforms regardless of which region it is stored in. That is not a flaw in those products; it is simply how jurisdiction works. It follows the operator, not the data centre.
For regulated European industries — finance, healthcare, government, insurance — that distinction is the buying decision. GDPR compliance, board-level data sovereignty mandates, and sector-specific regulations require data to stay under EU law, not merely on 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.
Every component — compute, storage, control plane — is operated by EU-owned companies under EU law. This is the actual production topology, not a metaphor.
Where data lives
Amsterdam, Netherlands — within the European Union
Infrastructure
Warehouse compute: Leafcloud (Dutch-owned). Control plane: IONOS VPS (German-owned). 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
Not a roadmap — every capability below is shipped and reachable from the product today.
Isolated SQL compute from xs to l, billed per minute after a 60-second minimum. Auto-suspend when idle — an idle workspace costs nothing but storage.
Discover WarehousesSQL worksheets with charting, shared dashboards with drag-to-reorder and auto-refresh — analysis and delivery in one place.
Discover WorksheetsQuery Parquet and CSV in your own object storage without ingesting a copy. Browse, preview, and register — all in the product.
Discover External TablesLand payloads raw for a bronze layer or infer schema on the way in. Text, fixed-width, XML, CSV, Parquet, and CDC streams.
Discover IngestRBAC, row-level security, column masking, audit logging, time travel with AT(), and zero-copy shares filtered provider-side.
Discover GovernanceSQL macros, stored procedures, sandboxed JavaScript UDFs, Python procedures, and scoped service-account API keys for pipelines.
Discover ScriptingZero 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.
On the axes that matter for regulated European enterprises.
| Capability | Molinia | Snowflake | Databricks |
|---|---|---|---|
| EU data jurisdiction (default) | ✓ Amsterdam, NL (by architecture) | US-incorporated | US-incorporated |
| Outside US CLOUD Act scope | ✓ 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 in one platform | ~ Partial (ecosystem needed) | ~ Partial (ecosystem needed) |
| GDPR-oriented architecture | ✓ EU data, audit log, RoPA, residency attestation | ~ Configurable | ~ Configurable |
✓ = 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.
€1.25 /credit
1 credit = 1 hour of an xs warehouse; larger sizes are fixed multiples
€0.12 /GB·month
Storage, flat — with no egress fees, ever
€0 /seat
No subscription and no per-user fees — usage only
€200 free
30-day welcome grant, all warehouse sizes, no credit card — then a free floor that renews monthly
Warehouses are billed per minute after a 60-second minimum and auto-suspend when idle. Budget alerts, projected end-of-month spend, and invoice-ready usage exports are built in. Prices ex-VAT; VAT applied per your organisation's country.
| 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 |
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. Talk to us to go beyond, or about dedicated nodes, Dutch data-residency terms, customer-managed keys, and audit exports.
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.
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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