Ingest, transform, govern, and orchestrate enterprise data — entirely under European jurisdiction. Built for regulated industries that cannot compromise on data residency.
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 owner
Dutch-owned (LEAFCLOUD) — not a US hyperscaler subsidiary
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 entity jurisdiction.
Raindrop runs on LEAFCLOUD infrastructure in Amsterdam. LEAFCLOUD reuses waste heat from servers to warm buildings — turning what would otherwise be a by-product of computation into useful energy.
This is a physical process, not an accounting exercise. Raindrop does not purchase renewable-energy certificates or carbon offsets to balance its footprint. The infrastructure is climate-positive because the heat it produces displaces fossil-fuel heating in the buildings it serves.
For ESG-mandated buyers and sustainability-focused data teams, this is a verifiable, concrete claim — not a marketing abstraction. LEAFCLOUD publishes its infrastructure model openly.
One platform. EU-sovereign. Open standards. No compromises.
Data stays under EU jurisdiction. Hosted on Dutch-owned infrastructure in Amsterdam — outside US CLOUD Act reach.
Waste server heat reused to warm buildings via LEAFCLOUD. Not offsets — physical heat reuse by design.
Built on OpenStack open standards. Connect to Azure, AWS, GCP, and on-premises through one integration model. Workloads stay portable.
Ingestion → transformation → orchestration → governance in one coherent layer. Replace a stack of stitched-together tools.
Tenant isolation, RBAC, external secret stores, full audit logging, and data lineage — enterprise-ready from day one.
Four 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.
Define transformation and orchestration as code. Version-controlled, declarative, GitOps-native. Run at scale on autoscaling EU compute.
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) | ✓ Guaranteed | ✗ 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 infrastructure | ✓ Waste heat reuse | ✗ No | ✗ No |
| Unified platform (ingest → govern) | ✓ Yes | ~ Partial (ecosystem needed) | ~ Partial (ecosystem needed) |
| GDPR-aligned by design | ✓ Yes | ~ Configurable | ~ Configurable |
✓ = supported · ✗ = not supported · ~ = partial / configurable
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 Dutch-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 an architectural guarantee.
Raindrop is designed from the ground up for GDPR alignment. Data stays in the EU, processing is governed by EU law, and the platform includes tenant isolation, audit logging, and data lineage to support your compliance obligations.
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. Raindrop runs on climate-positive infrastructure; neither competitor offers this.
Raindrop runs on LEAFCLOUD infrastructure in Amsterdam. LEAFCLOUD reuses waste heat from servers to warm buildings, making the compute climate-positive by design — not through offset purchases or renewable energy certificates, but through physical heat reuse.
Raindrop is built on OpenStack open standards. Your pipelines, 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).
Talk to the Raindrop team. We'll show you how the platform works and whether it fits your data residency and compliance requirements.