At CARTO, they aim to provide users with an advanced and complete geospatial platform that extends the capabilities of popular cloud-based data warehouses like Google BigQuery, Snowflake, Databricks, and Amazon Redshift. The key benefit of their "cloud-native" approach is that it minimizes data movement across different environments and applications, embracing data gravity by design to ensure scalability, flexibility, and security. This approach ensures that all data processing, analysis, visualization, and storage are closely aligned within the cloud data warehouse platform, without compromising on the governance and security of user data. CARTO's platform is built to push down data processing and analysis directly into the cloud data warehouse, extracting value from native capabilities offered by these platforms. This approach guarantees consistent application of rules and policies in datasets, strong authentication and authorization mechanisms, fine-grained access control, transparency, and auditability within the data warehouse itself.