# Data warehouses: what AI models recommend, November 2026

Gane Index, November 2026 Edition. Asked as "cloud data warehouse" and as "analytical data warehouse platform", six framings each, to fourteen models with search on, on behalf of a mid-market B2B company. Page: https://www.gane.ai/index/it/it-data/data-warehouses/2026-11

**Standing:** Snowflake leads with 62% of first choices; verdict clear leader. 52 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) | 62% | 24% | 78 |
| 2 | [Google BigQuery](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/google-bigquery/index.md) | 33% | 13% | 78 |
| 3 | [ClickHouse Cloud](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/clickhouse-cloud/index.md) | 4% | 12% | 26 |
| 5 | [Amazon Redshift](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/amazon-redshift/index.md) | 0% | 14% | 76 |
| 6 | [Databricks SQL](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/databricks-sql/index.md) | 0% | 22% | 55 |
| 7 | [Microsoft Fabric Data Warehouse](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/microsoft-fabric-data-warehouse/index.md) | 0% | 8% | 25 |
| 8 | [Azure Synapse Analytics](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/azure-synapse-analytics/index.md) | 0% | 20% | 25 |
| 9 | [MotherDuck](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/motherduck/index.md) | 0% | 20% | 10 |

Rank is by share of first choices among all 44 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 SQL Database or Azure Synapse, ClicData, Firebolt
- GPT-5.4 mini: Snowflake; alternatives Amazon Redshift, Google BigQuery
- Gemini 3.5 Flash: Snowflake; alternatives Amazon Redshift, Azure Synapse Analytics, Google BigQuery, Microsoft Fabric Data Warehouse
- Perplexity Sonar: Snowflake; alternatives Amazon Redshift, ClickHouse Cloud, Databricks SQL, Google BigQuery
- Grok 4.20: Snowflake; alternatives Amazon Redshift, Databricks SQL, Google BigQuery, Microsoft Fabric Data Warehouse
- Mistral Small: Snowflake; alternatives Amazon Redshift, Databricks SQL, Google BigQuery
- DeepSeek V4 Flash: Snowflake; alternatives Amazon Redshift, Databricks SQL, Google BigQuery
- Llama 4 Maverick: Snowflake
- Qwen 3.7 Flash: Google BigQuery, Snowflake; alternatives Amazon Redshift, Databricks SQL
- Kimi K2: Snowflake; alternatives Amazon Redshift, Google BigQuery
- GLM 4.7 FlashX: Snowflake; alternatives Amazon Redshift, Azure Synapse Analytics, Google BigQuery
- MiniMax M2.5: Snowflake; alternatives Amazon Redshift, Azure Synapse Analytics, Google BigQuery
- GPT-6 Luna: Snowflake; alternatives Amazon Redshift, Databricks SQL, Google BigQuery
- Muse Glimmer 30B: Google BigQuery, Snowflake; alternatives Amazon Redshift, Databricks SQL

## Sources the answers cite

69 of 84 answers came back with a source list, from 13 of 14 models. Sites named in the most answers:

- clickhouse.com: 36 answers, 62 citations
- atlan.com: 22 answers, 22 citations
- double.cloud: 21 answers, 22 citations
- fivetran.com: 18 answers, 19 citations
- linkedin.com: 15 answers, 20 citations
- cloud.google.com: 14 answers, 27 citations
- kanerika.com: 14 answers, 17 citations
- infoworld.com: 14 answers, 14 citations

Pages named in the most answers:

- https://atlan.com/best-cloud-data-warehouses (22 answers)
- https://clickhouse.com/blog/cloud-data-warehouses-cost-performance-comparison (19 answers)
- https://fivetran.com/blog/warehouse-benchmark (17 answers)
- https://double.cloud/blog/posts/2024/09/cloud-data-warehouse-solutions (14 answers)
- https://bangaloreorbit.com/blog/top-10-data-warehouse-platforms-features-pros-cons-comparison (12 answers)
- https://clickhouse.com/resources/engineering/top-5-cloud-data-warehouses (11 answers)
- https://infoworld.com/article/4137452/buyers-guide-comparing-the-leading-cloud-data-platforms.html (11 answers)
- https://kanerika.com/blogs/cloud-data-warehouse (10 answers)
- https://snowpack-data.com/blog/choosing-a-cloud-warehouse (10 answers)
- https://clickhouse.com/blog/how-cloud-data-warehouses-bill-you.md (9 answers)

## Warned against

- Snowflake: 19 of 78 labels negative. "Tools like Snowflake, BigQuery, and Redshift are optimized for structured business intelligence (BI) and reporting. However, using them for operational workloads...can lead to performance issues and escalating costs." (Mistral Small, negative prompt)
- Amazon Redshift: 11 of 76 labels negative. "Avoid Redshift (unless you're an AWS-only shop with DBA resources)" (DeepSeek V4 Flash, negative prompt)
- Google BigQuery: 10 of 78 labels negative. "Tools like Snowflake, BigQuery, and Redshift are optimized for structured business intelligence (BI) and reporting." (Mistral Small, negative prompt)
- Databricks SQL: 12 of 55 labels negative. "if your team only needs simple SQL querying, basic reporting, and standard BI dashboards, Databricks can introduce unnecessary engineering complexity" (Gemini 3.5 Flash, negative prompt)

## Movement since October 2026

Floor: 11 points of share, measured on the calibration repeat.
Same leader: Snowflake at 62%.

- Google BigQuery: 47% to 33%, −14. Cleared the floor by 3 points · rank 2 of 44, unchanged.
- Snowflake: 49% to 62%, +13. Cleared the floor by 2 points · rank 1 of 44, unchanged.
- ClickHouse Cloud: 2% to 4%, +2. Inside the floor by 9 points · rank 4 → 3 of 44.
- Amazon Redshift: 2% to 0%, −2. Inside the floor by 9 points · rank 3 → 5 of 44.
- Databricks SQL: 0% to 0%, ±0. Inside the floor by 11 points · rank 5 → 6 of 44.
- Microsoft Fabric Data Warehouse: 0% to 0%, ±0. Inside the floor by 11 points · rank 6 → 7 of 44.
- Azure Synapse Analytics: 0% to 0%, ±0. Inside the floor by 11 points · rank 8 of 44, unchanged.
- MotherDuck: 0% to 0%, ±0. Inside the floor by 11 points · rank 7 → 9 of 44.

## Record

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