# Data warehouses for enterprise buyers: 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 an enterprise B2B company. Page: https://www.gane.ai/index/it/it-data/data-warehouses/enterprise

**Standing:** Snowflake leads with 70% of first choices; verdict clear leader. 44 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) | 70% | 24% | 78 |
| 2 | [Google BigQuery](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/google-bigquery/index.md) | 20% | 19% | 78 |
| 3 | [Amazon Redshift](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/amazon-redshift/index.md) | 5% | 23% | 74 |
| 4 | [Microsoft Fabric Data Warehouse](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/microsoft-fabric-data-warehouse/index.md) | 5% | 16% | 32 |
| 5 | [Databricks SQL](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/databricks-sql/index.md) | 0% | 16% | 57 |
| 6 | [Azure Synapse Analytics](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/azure-synapse-analytics/index.md) | 0% | 14% | 28 |
| 7 | [ClickHouse Cloud](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/clickhouse-cloud/index.md) | 0% | 30% | 10 |
| 44 | [Teradata Vantage](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/teradata-vantage/index.md) | 0% | 42% | 12 |

Rank is by share of first choices among all 47 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: no first choice
- GPT-5.4 mini: Snowflake; alternatives Amazon Redshift, Azure Synapse Analytics, Google BigQuery, Microsoft Fabric Data Warehouse
- Gemini 3.5 Flash: Snowflake; alternatives Amazon Redshift, 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, Microsoft Fabric Data Warehouse
- Mistral Small: Snowflake; alternatives Amazon Redshift, Google BigQuery
- DeepSeek V4 Flash: Snowflake; alternatives Databricks SQL, Google BigQuery, Microsoft Fabric / Synapse
- Llama 4 Maverick: Snowflake; alternatives Amazon Redshift, Databricks SQL, Google BigQuery, Teradata Vantage
- Qwen 3.7 Flash: Snowflake; alternatives Amazon Redshift, Databricks SQL, Google BigQuery
- Kimi K2: Snowflake; alternatives Amazon Redshift, Google BigQuery, Microsoft Fabric / Azure Synapse
- GLM 4.7 FlashX: Snowflake; alternatives Amazon Redshift, Azure Synapse Analytics, Google BigQuery
- MiniMax M2.5: Snowflake; alternatives Amazon Redshift, Databricks SQL, Google BigQuery, Microsoft Fabric / Synapse
- GPT-6 Luna: Snowflake; alternatives Amazon Redshift, Databricks SQL, Google BigQuery
- Muse Glimmer 30B: Snowflake; alternatives Amazon Redshift, Databricks SQL, Google BigQuery

## Sources the answers cite

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

- clickhouse.com: 29 answers, 55 citations
- kanerika.com: 25 answers, 28 citations
- fortegrp.com: 20 answers, 20 citations
- infoworld.com: 20 answers, 20 citations
- cloud.google.com: 19 answers, 34 citations
- linkedin.com: 16 answers, 22 citations
- double.cloud: 15 answers, 15 citations
- docs.cloud.google.com: 14 answers, 19 citations

Pages named in the most answers:

- https://fortegrp.com/insights/best-cloud-data-warehouse (20 answers)
- https://infoworld.com/article/4137452/buyers-guide-comparing-the-leading-cloud-data-platforms.html (18 answers)
- https://clickhouse.com/blog/cloud-data-warehouses-cost-performance-comparison (16 answers)
- https://clickhouse.com/resources/engineering/top-5-cloud-data-warehouses (15 answers)
- https://atlan.com/best-cloud-data-warehouses (13 answers)
- https://kanerika.com/blogs/data-warehouse-tools (13 answers)
- https://res.cloudinary.com/talend/image/upload/v1708893202/qlik/docs/resource-library/ebooks/resource-eb-comparison-guide-top-cloud-data-warehouse-for-the-enterprise-en_fmaxgo.pdf (12 answers)
- https://kanerika.com/blogs/cloud-data-warehouse (11 answers)
- https://skyvia.com/blog/best-data-warehouse-tools (11 answers)
- https://double.cloud/blog/posts/2024/09/cloud-data-warehouse-solutions (10 answers)

## Warned against

- Google BigQuery: 15 of 78 labels negative. "Google BigQuery (proprietary formats, high lock-in)" (Mistral Small, negative prompt)
- Snowflake: 19 of 78 labels negative. "Large enterprises should be cautious about or avoid the following cloud data warehouses due to high vendor lock-in risk or poor enterprise support: - Snowflake (proprietary formats, high lock-in)" (Mistral Small, negative prompt)
- Amazon Redshift: 17 of 74 labels negative. "Amazon Redshift (low user satisfaction, limited long-term viability)" (Mistral Small, negative prompt)
- Databricks SQL: 9 of 57 labels negative. "Entity to be cautious about: Databricks (Lakehouse Platform) ... requires significant expertise to tune, maintain, and secure." (Qwen 3.7 Flash, negative prompt)

## Movement since October 2026

Floor: 11 points of share, measured on the calibration repeat.
Same leader: Snowflake at 70%.

- Snowflake: 62% to 70%, +8. Inside the floor by 3 points · rank 1 of 47, unchanged.
- Amazon Redshift: 12% to 5%, −7. Inside the floor by 4 points · rank 3 of 47, unchanged.
- Microsoft Fabric Data Warehouse: 2% to 5%, +3. Inside the floor by 8 points · rank 4 of 47, unchanged.
- Google BigQuery: 19% to 20%, +1. Inside the floor by 10 points · rank 2 of 47, unchanged.
- Databricks SQL: 0% to 0%, ±0. Inside the floor by 11 points · rank 7 → 5 of 47.
- Azure Synapse Analytics: 0% to 0%, ±0. Inside the floor by 11 points · rank 8 → 6 of 47.
- ClickHouse Cloud: 0% to 0%, ±0. Inside the floor by 11 points · rank 9 → 7 of 47.
- Teradata Vantage: 0% to 0%, ±0. Inside the floor by 11 points · rank 41 → 44 of 47.

## 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.