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 · EU-sovereign
Platform guarantees
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.
Raindrop is built specifically for this requirement. Data sovereignty is not a configuration option or a regional deployment feature — it is the architecture.
Raindrop 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 — Raindrop 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. Raindrop 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.
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 <a href="https://leaf.cloud/truly-green/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" class="underline hover:text-green-300">Leafcloud</a> infrastructure in Amsterdam. Server heat reused as residential hot water — physical heat reuse, not carbon offsets.
Built on OpenStack open standards. Connect to Azure, AWS, GCP, and on-premises through one integration model. Workloads stay portable.
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.
Four shipped primitives, one platform, 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. Raindrop builds a unified catalogue across all connected systems.
Specify where processed data lands — EU-only storage locations. Data residency enforced at the platform level, not the user level.
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
On the axes that matter for regulated European enterprises.
| Capability | Raindrop | 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
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.
€1.25 per credit— one credit = one hour of an 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.
Raindrop 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.
Full audit trail
Every data access, pipeline run, and configuration change is logged and queryable.
Data lineage
Track data origin, transformation, and destination across every pipeline.
SSO / SAML / OIDC
Enterprise identity integration. Bring your existing IdP.
No. Raindrop is hosted on EU-owned infrastructure in Amsterdam under EU jurisdiction. The US CLOUD Act applies to US persons and US-incorporated entities. Raindrop operates entirely within the EU legal framework, keeping your data outside US data-access law.
All data is stored within the European Union — specifically on infrastructure located in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Data does not leave EU jurisdiction. This is not a configuration option; it is built into the architecture of the platform.
Raindrop is designed for GDPR alignment. Data stays in the EU, processing is governed by EU law, and the platform ships tenant isolation, full audit logging, an Article 30 Record of Processing Activities (RoPA), and a per-org data residency attestation report — concrete tools to support your compliance obligations. The platform does not claim a GDPR certification; those obligations sit with the data controller (your organisation).
Raindrop keeps data under EU jurisdiction by default — Snowflake and Databricks are US-incorporated entities subject to the CLOUD Act. Raindrop runs on open standards (OpenStack) so workloads are portable; Snowflake and Databricks are proprietary platforms. Warehouse compute runs on climate-positive Leafcloud infrastructure; neither competitor offers this.
Warehouse compute runs on Leafcloud infrastructure in Amsterdam. Leafcloud reuses waste heat from servers to warm residential buildings, making the warehouse compute climate-positive — not through offset purchases or renewable energy certificates, but through physical heat reuse. Leafcloud publishes their sustainability model openly at leaf.cloud. The control plane runs on a separate EU VPS (IONOS, German-owned), which operates under EU jurisdiction but does not participate in the heat-reuse model.
Raindrop is built on OpenStack open standards. Your data and configurations are not tied to a proprietary format. You can connect to Azure, AWS, GCP, and on-premises systems through one integration model, and move workloads without re-engineering your stack.
Raindrop integrates with major cloud storage (Azure Blob, AWS S3, Google Cloud Storage), databases (PostgreSQL, Snowflake, Databricks), messaging (Apache Kafka), and source-control platforms (GitHub, GitLab, Azure DevOps).
Usage only — there is no subscription. Warehouse compute is €1.25 per credit, where one credit is an hour of an xs warehouse and larger sizes are a fixed multiple (an l warehouse is 8 credits an hour). Storage is €0.12 per GB per month, with no egress fees. Warehouses auto-suspend when idle and are billed per minute after a 60-second minimum, so an idle workspace costs nothing but storage. All prices are ex-VAT; VAT is applied per your organisation's country.
Every new workspace starts with €200 in credits, valid for 30 days, with no credit card required and every warehouse size unlocked. When the credits are spent or the 30 days are up, the workspace stays alive on the free floor: xs warehouses, one running at a time, two warehouses, and 5 credits a month that renew. Storage on free workspaces is purged after 30 days of inactivity.
Try the platform yourself or talk to the Raindrop 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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