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    What is Bobsled Sledhouse? (public preview)
    • 09 Jun 2025
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    What is Bobsled Sledhouse? (public preview)

    • Updated on 09 Jun 2025
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    Article summary

    Sledhouse is Bobsled's cutting-edge data product lakehouse designed to transform how data providers create, fulfill, and govern data products. Built on a multi-cloud architecture with egress-free storage, Sledhouse dramatically reduces infrastructure costs while enabling fine-grained product customization and global data delivery.

    PUBLIC PREVIEW NOTE:
    • During this Public Preview, expect some limitations. Your feedback is crucial as we build the product.
    • We look forward to your feedback and to helping you integrate Sledhouse into your data architecture. Feel free to reach out if you have any questions about setup, configuration, or advanced use cases, or check our quick start guide.

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    Key features

    UI-driven Setup

    Easily configure ingestion from a source, define partitioning, and select update modes (append, update and append, or overwrite).

    Golden Copy Storage

    Data is stored in Iceberg ↗ format in Cloudflare R2 ↗ for efficient storage and data access.

    Flexible transformations

    Filter rows and select columns through a built-in SQL editor (with an AI assist for SQL generation).

    Data Products

    Publish a curated subset or transformation of the golden copy as a shareable product.

    Integration with Existing Bobsled Shares

    Seamlessly create shares in Snowflake (and other supported destinations coming soon) using Bobsled’s native sharing tools.

    Benefits of the Sledhouse

    Sledhouse is a cutting-edge data product lakehouse designed to transform how data providers create, fulfill, and govern data products. Through this platform, you can:

    Streamline Data Operations

    Create and manage data products with zero-copy architecture, dramatically reducing infrastructure and labor costs.

    Enable Global Fulfillment

    Securely deliver analytics-ready data to customers across multiple platforms, including cloud storage, data warehouses, and FTP, without managing complex pipelines or credentials.

    Ensure Unified Governance

    Track usage, monitor deliveries, explore user behavior, and maintain comprehensive audit trails across all data products.

    Reduced Costs

    Leverage egress-free infrastructure and zero-copy architecture to minimize storage, egress, and compute costs.

    Public Preview: known limitations and upcoming improvements

    • Scale: Work closely with our team to confirm your Sledhouse environment is scaled appropriately to your data scale.

    • Enhanced Metadata: Better column descriptions, data catalogs, and discoverability features will be added soon.

    • Observability & Telemetry: Insights into Sledhouse usage are coming soon.

    • Materialization in destination: Currently, Sledhouse tables are only available in External R2 Iceberg tables. We are actively working on giving the option to materialize in local regions as native tables.

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