# MotherDuck alternatives: what AI models name instead, November 2026

Gane Index, November 2026 Edition. 229 of the 252 answers in the 1 category where MotherDuck holds a standing named it neither first nor as an alternative; these are the first choices those answers made. Page: https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/motherduck/alternatives

## Named instead, most often (every category and segment added)

- Snowflake: 93
- Google BigQuery: 70
- Amazon Redshift: 5
- ClickHouse Cloud: 2
- Microsoft Fabric Data Warehouse: 2
- Databricks SQL: 1

## Data warehouses

**Small business**: 65 of 84 answers did not name MotherDuck (MotherDuck is #4 of 10 at 3%).

- Google BigQuery: first choice in 44 of those 65
- Snowflake: first choice in 15 of those 65
- Amazon Redshift: first choice in 2 of those 65
- PostgreSQL: first choice in 1 of those 65

**Mid-market**: 80 of 84 answers did not name MotherDuck (MotherDuck is #8 of 8 at 0%).

- Snowflake: first choice in 38 of those 80
- Google BigQuery: first choice in 15 of those 80
- ClickHouse Cloud: first choice in 1 of those 80
- GCP BigQuery: first choice in 1 of those 80

**Enterprise**: 84 of 84 answers did not name MotherDuck.

- Snowflake: first choice in 40 of those 84
- Google BigQuery: first choice in 11 of those 84
- Amazon Redshift: first choice in 3 of those 84
- Microsoft Fabric Data Warehouse: first choice in 2 of those 84
- ClickHouse Cloud: first choice in 1 of those 84
- Databricks SQL: first choice in 1 of those 84

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