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

Gane Index, November 2026 Edition. 118 of the 252 answers in the 1 category where Snowflake 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/snowflake/alternatives

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

- Google BigQuery: 35
- MotherDuck: 5
- ClickHouse Cloud: 4
- Amazon Redshift: 3
- Microsoft Fabric Data Warehouse: 2
- DuckDB: 1

## Data warehouses

**Small business**: 38 of 84 answers did not name Snowflake (Snowflake is #2 of 10 at 20%).

- Google BigQuery: first choice in 19 of those 38
- MotherDuck: first choice in 5 of those 38
- Amazon Redshift: first choice in 1 of those 38
- ClickHouse Cloud: first choice in 1 of those 38
- DuckDB: first choice in 1 of those 38
- PostgreSQL: first choice in 1 of those 38

**Mid-market**: 41 of 84 answers did not name Snowflake (Snowflake is #1 of 8 at 62%).

- Google BigQuery: first choice in 12 of those 41
- ClickHouse Cloud: first choice in 2 of those 41

**Enterprise**: 39 of 84 answers did not name Snowflake (Snowflake is #1 of 8 at 70%).

- Google BigQuery: first choice in 4 of those 39
- Amazon Redshift: first choice in 2 of those 39
- Microsoft Fabric Data Warehouse: first choice in 2 of those 39
- ClickHouse Cloud: first choice in 1 of those 39

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