# Data warehouses for enterprise buyers: what AI models recommend, September 2026

Gane Index, September 2026 Edition. Asked as "cloud data warehouse" and as "analytical data warehouse platform", six framings each, to twelve models with search on, on behalf of an enterprise B2B company. Page: https://www.gane.ai/index/it/it-data/data-warehouses/2026-09/enterprise

This is the permanent record of the September 2026 Edition, published September 17, 2026 and superseded since. The current standing: https://www.gane.ai/index/it/it-data/data-warehouses/enterprise/index.md

**Standing:** Snowflake leads with 72% of first choices; verdict clear leader. 39 first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts.

## First-choice share

| Rank | Product | Share | Negative rate | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | [Snowflake](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/snowflake/index.md) | 72% | 22% | 67 |
| 2 | [Amazon Redshift](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/amazon-redshift/index.md) | 15% | 25% | 65 |
| 3 | [Google BigQuery](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/google-bigquery/index.md) | 13% | 16% | 68 |
| 4 | [Databricks SQL](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/databricks-sql/index.md) | 0% | 12% | 48 |
| 5 | [Microsoft Fabric Data Warehouse](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/microsoft-fabric-data-warehouse/index.md) | 0% | 15% | 20 |
| 6 | [Azure Synapse Analytics](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/azure-synapse-analytics/index.md) | 0% | 29% | 24 |
| 7 | [ClickHouse Cloud](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/clickhouse-cloud/index.md) | 0% | 27% | 11 |

Rank is by share of first choices among all 32 products named; products with the same share are tied, and the order among them carries no meaning. The table lists those with at least 10 labels.

## Each model's first choice on the direct prompt

- Claude Haiku 4.5: Snowflake; alternatives Amazon Redshift, Azure Synapse Analytics, Google BigQuery
- GPT-5.4 mini: Snowflake; alternatives Amazon Redshift, Databricks SQL, Google BigQuery
- Gemini 3.5 Flash: Snowflake; alternatives Databricks SQL, Google BigQuery, Microsoft Fabric Data Warehouse
- Perplexity Sonar: Snowflake; alternatives Amazon Redshift, Databricks SQL, Google BigQuery, Microsoft Fabric Data Warehouse
- Grok 4.20: Snowflake; alternatives Amazon Redshift, Databricks SQL, Google BigQuery
- Mistral Small: Snowflake; alternatives Databricks SQL, Google BigQuery
- DeepSeek V4 Flash: Snowflake; alternatives Amazon Redshift, ClickHouse Cloud, Databricks SQL, Google BigQuery
- Llama 4 Maverick: no first choice
- Qwen 3.7 Flash: Snowflake; alternatives Amazon Redshift, Databricks SQL, Google BigQuery, Microsoft Fabric Data Warehouse
- Kimi K2: Snowflake; alternatives Amazon Redshift, Databricks SQL, Google BigQuery
- GLM 4.7 FlashX: Snowflake; alternatives Amazon Redshift, Azure Synapse Analytics, Databricks SQL, Google BigQuery
- MiniMax M2.5: Snowflake; alternatives Databricks SQL, Google BigQuery

## Sources the answers cite

63 of 72 answers came back with a source list, from 12 of 12 models. Sites named in the most answers:

- clickhouse.com: 29 answers, 42 citations
- domo.com: 28 answers, 28 citations
- fortegrp.com: 20 answers, 20 citations
- atlan.com: 19 answers, 19 citations
- scnsoft.com: 17 answers, 17 citations
- cloud.google.com: 16 answers, 25 citations
- ovaledge.com: 16 answers, 17 citations
- medium.com: 15 answers, 18 citations

Pages named in the most answers:

- https://domo.com/learn/article/best-data-warehouse-platforms (28 answers)
- https://clickhouse.com/resources/engineering/top-5-cloud-data-warehouses (26 answers)
- https://fortegrp.com/insights/best-cloud-data-warehouse (20 answers)
- https://atlan.com/best-cloud-data-warehouses (19 answers)
- https://scnsoft.com/data/data-warehouse/cloud (15 answers)
- https://ovaledge.com/blog/cloud-data-warehouse-solutions (14 answers)
- https://clickhouse.com/blog/cloud-data-warehouses-cost-performance-comparison (11 answers)
- https://solutionsreview.com/data-management/the-best-cloud-data-warehouse-solutions-2 (11 answers)
- https://brickclay.com/cloud-data-warehouses-for-enterprise-amazon-vs-azure-vs-google-vs-snowflake (10 answers)
- https://double.cloud/blog/posts/2024/09/cloud-data-warehouse-solutions (10 answers)

## Warned against

- Amazon Redshift: 16 of 65 labels negative. "Redshift wins almost nowhere in 2026 unless your stack is AWS-locked and you need RA3 features" (Claude Haiku 4.5, negative prompt)
- Snowflake: 15 of 67 labels negative. "Some traditional cloud data warehouses (such as older architectures of Snowflake, Redshift, and BigQuery) may struggle with ultra-fast queries, real-time data ingestion" (Mistral Small, negative prompt)
- Google BigQuery: 11 of 68 labels negative. "avoid warehouses that are tightly coupled to one cloud (e.g., Azure Synapse for Azure-only, BigQuery for GCP-only)" (Mistral Small, negative prompt)
- Azure Synapse Analytics: 7 of 24 labels negative. "avoid warehouses that are tightly coupled to one cloud (e.g., Azure Synapse for Azure-only, BigQuery for GCP-only)" (Mistral Small, negative prompt)

## Record

- Method: https://www.gane.ai/index/it/methodology
- License: CC BY 4.0. Cite as Gane Index, September 2026 Edition, www.gane.ai/index/it.