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Starburst
Lake query engine
Trino-based SQL platform for querying data across lakes, databases, and warehouses, with managed Galaxy and self-managed Enterprise deployments.
Warehouses and lakehouses
Cloud warehouses and lakehouses: the system of record for analytics.
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Firebolt
Cloud warehouse
Cloud data warehouse for sub-second, high-concurrency SQL on AWS, billed per second, with a free self-hosted edition, Firebolt Core.
Dremio
Lake query engine
Lakehouse SQL engine on Apache Iceberg with Autonomous Reflections, a Polaris-based Open Catalog and an AI agent; managed on AWS or self-hosted.
DuckDB
Embedded/serverless
Free, MIT-licensed in-process SQL database for fast analytics on Parquet, CSV and JSON, on a laptop, server or in the browser.
MotherDuck
Embedded/serverless
Serverless cloud DuckDB: per-user Ducklings billed per second, Dual Execution across laptop and cloud, MCP server for AI agents.
Azure Synapse Analytics
Cloud warehouse
Microsoft's Azure warehouse: dedicated MPP SQL billed per DWU-hour, $5-per-TB serverless SQL, Spark pools and pipelines in one workspace.
Microsoft Fabric
Cloud warehouse
Microsoft's all-in-one analytics platform: warehouse, lakehouse, Spark, pipelines and Power BI on one capacity, with data stored as Delta in OneLake.
Usage-based
Amazon Redshift
Cloud warehouse
AWS cloud data warehouse with Serverless and provisioned compute, SQL analytics, data sharing, supported zero-ETL integrations, and AI-assisted queries.
From $0.15/DBU Databricks
Lakehouse platform
The lakehouse platform built around Spark and Delta Lake. Priced per Databricks Unit (DBU) on top of your own cloud bill, starting at $0.15 per DBU.
Free tier BigQuery
Cloud warehouse
Google's serverless warehouse. Pay $6.25 per TiB scanned with the first TiB free each month, or buy slot capacity by the hour.
Usage-based Snowflake
Cloud warehouse
The cloud data warehouse most teams compare everything else against. Usage-based credits and storage, four editions from Standard to Virtual Private Snowflake.