Alternatives to Snowflake
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If you're comparing Snowflake with other companies in Data & Analytics and AI & ML Platforms, start here. These are the 32 other active companies Techarda tracks in the same categories, ordered by their activity score: recent stories, follows and discussion on Techarda. It shows where attention is, not which company is better or right for you.
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Data & Analytics: Snowflake's main category
19 companies sit alongside Snowflake here, busiest first.
- Amazon Web Services#5 leader in Data & AnalyticsCompare with Snowflake
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the cloud computing subsidiary of Amazon, headquartered in Seattle and launching its core services in 2006. It offers on-demand infrastructure and…
- 190 stories in the last 90 days
Also in AI & ML Platforms
- Google Cloud#3 leader in Data & AnalyticsCompare with Snowflake
Google Cloud is the cloud computing business of Google, a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc. It offers Google Cloud Platform infrastructure and services including Compute Engine, Google…
- 82 stories in the last 90 days
Also in AI & ML Platforms
- Databricks#2 leader in Data & AnalyticsCompare with Snowflake
Databricks is a data and AI company founded in 2013 by the creators of Apache Spark and headquartered in San Francisco. Its Data Intelligence Platform, built on a lakehouse…
- 65 stories in the last 90 days
Also in AI & ML Platforms
- SAP#9 leader in Data & AnalyticsCompare with Snowflake
SAP is a German enterprise software company, SAP SE, headquartered in Walldorf, Germany, and founded in 1972. It sells enterprise resource planning software, notably SAP S/4HANA…
- 47 stories in the last 90 days
- Salesforce#6 leader in Data & AnalyticsCompare with Snowflake
Salesforce is a US enterprise software company headquartered in San Francisco, California, founded in 1999. It sells customer relationship management (CRM) applications including…
- 26 stories in the last 90 days
- Microsoft#4 leader in Data & AnalyticsCompare with Snowflake
Microsoft is a global technology company whose enterprise portfolio spans the Azure cloud platform, Microsoft 365 productivity software, Dynamics 365 business applications…
- 20 stories in the last 90 days
Also in AI & ML Platforms
- Starburst#19 leader in Data & AnalyticsCompare with Snowflake
Starburst is a US data analytics company founded in 2017 and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. It sells a data lakehouse and query platform built on Trino, the open source…
- 26 stories in the last 90 days
- Fivetran#13 leader in Data & AnalyticsCompare with Snowflake
Fivetran is a US data integration company that provides fully managed, automated ELT pipelines. Its platform offers hundreds of prebuilt connectors that replicate data from SaaS…
- 26 stories in the last 90 days
- ThoughtSpot#17 leader in Data & AnalyticsCompare with Snowflake
ThoughtSpot is a US business intelligence and analytics software company founded in 2012 and headquartered in Mountain View, California. Its AI-powered analytics platform lets…
- 14 stories in the last 90 days
- dbt Labs#14 leader in Data & AnalyticsCompare with Snowflake
dbt Labs is the company behind dbt, a widely used tool for transforming data inside cloud data warehouses using SQL and software engineering practices such as version control and…
- 17 stories in the last 90 days
- 1 community thread
- Teradata#10 leader in Data & AnalyticsCompare with Snowflake
Teradata is a US data analytics and data platform company founded in 1979 and headquartered in San Diego, California. Its flagship Teradata VantageCloud platform provides a…
- 9 stories in the last 90 days
- Confluent#15 leader in Data & AnalyticsCompare with Snowflake
Confluent is a data streaming company founded in 2014 by Jay Kreps, Neha Narkhede and Jun Rao, the original creators of Apache Kafka. Headquartered in Mountain View, California…
- 11 stories in the last 90 days
- Alteryx#16 leader in Data & AnalyticsCompare with Snowflake
Alteryx is a US analytics software company founded in 1997 and headquartered in Irvine, California. Its Alteryx One platform, including Alteryx Designer and cloud-based analytics…
Evidence is still building for Alteryx.
- Cloudera#11 leader in Data & AnalyticsCompare with Snowflake
Cloudera is a US data platform company founded in 2008 and headquartered in Santa Clara, California. Its Cloudera Data Platform provides hybrid data management, data engineering…
Evidence is still building for Cloudera.
- Domo#18 leader in Data & AnalyticsCompare with Snowflake
Domo is an American cloud business intelligence and data platform company founded in 2010 by Josh James and headquartered in American Fork, Utah. Its platform combines data…
Evidence is still building for Domo.
- Informatica#12 leader in Data & AnalyticsCompare with Snowflake
Informatica is a US enterprise data management company whose Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC) covers data integration, data quality, master data management, data catalog…
Evidence is still building for Informatica.
- Oracle#8 leader in Data & AnalyticsCompare with Snowflake
Oracle is an enterprise software and cloud company known for Oracle Database, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications, NetSuite, MySQL and Java. It…
Evidence is still building for Oracle.
Also in AI & ML Platforms
- Qlik#7 leader in Data & AnalyticsCompare with Snowflake
Qlik is a data integration, analytics and AI company founded in Lund, Sweden, in 1993 and headquartered in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania. Its products include Qlik Sense and…
Evidence is still building for Qlik.
- SAS#20 leader in Data & AnalyticsCompare with Snowflake
SAS, formally SAS Institute Inc., is a US analytics and AI software company headquartered in Cary, North Carolina, founded in 1976. Its flagship SAS Viya cloud-native platform…
Evidence is still building for SAS.
Also in AI & ML Platforms
AI & ML Platforms
13 companies sit alongside Snowflake here, busiest first. 6 others are listed in an earlier section.
- OpenAI#1 leader in AI & ML PlatformsCompare with Snowflake
OpenAI is an artificial intelligence research and deployment company that develops the GPT family of large language models, reasoning models, image, video and speech models, and…
- 62 stories in the last 90 days
- NVIDIA#6 leader in AI & ML PlatformsCompare with Snowflake
NVIDIA is a semiconductor and computing platform company that designs GPUs, CPUs, networking and software for AI, data centres, gaming, professional visualisation and automotive…
- 55 stories in the last 90 days
- Anyscale#19 leader in AI & ML PlatformsCompare with Snowflake
Anyscale is a US AI infrastructure company founded in 2019 by the creators of Ray, the open-source distributed computing framework from UC Berkeley. Headquartered in San…
- 22 stories in the last 90 days
- Mistral AI#11 leader in AI & ML PlatformsCompare with Snowflake
Mistral AI is a French artificial intelligence company that develops large language models, including open-weight and commercial models such as Mistral Large, Mistral Medium…
- 11 stories in the last 90 days
- Anthropic#2 leader in AI & ML PlatformsCompare with Snowflake
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company founded in 2021 and headquartered in San Francisco. It develops the Claude family of large language models, offered through the…
Evidence is still building for Anthropic.
- DataRobot#12 leader in AI & ML PlatformsCompare with Snowflake
DataRobot is an AI platform company founded in 2012 by Jeremy Achin and Tom de Godoy and based in Boston, Massachusetts. Known for pioneering automated machine learning (AutoML)…
- 1 story in the last 90 days
- Cohere#10 leader in AI & ML PlatformsCompare with Snowflake
Cohere is a Canadian enterprise AI company founded in 2019 and headquartered in Toronto. It develops large language models, including Command for generation, Embed for semantic…
Evidence is still building for Cohere.
- Dataiku#13 leader in AI & ML PlatformsCompare with Snowflake
Dataiku is an enterprise AI and analytics platform company founded in Paris in 2013 by Florian Douetteau, Clément Stenac, Marc Batty and Thomas Cabrol, and now headquartered in…
Evidence is still building for Dataiku.
- Domino Data Lab#15 leader in AI & ML PlatformsCompare with Snowflake
Domino Data Lab is an enterprise AI platform company founded in 2013 by Nick Elprin, Chris Yang and Matthew Granade and headquartered in San Francisco. Its Domino platform gives…
Evidence is still building for Domino Data Lab.
- H2O.ai#14 leader in AI & ML PlatformsCompare with Snowflake
H2O.ai is a US AI company known for H2O, its open source distributed machine learning platform, and for Driverless AI, its automated machine learning product. Its H2O AI Cloud and…
Evidence is still building for H2O.ai.
- Hugging Face#9 leader in AI & ML PlatformsCompare with Snowflake
Hugging Face is an AI company that runs the Hugging Face Hub, a platform hosting open machine learning models, datasets and demo applications (Spaces), and maintains open source…
Evidence is still building for Hugging Face.
- IBM#8 leader in AI & ML PlatformsCompare with Snowflake
IBM is a US technology company providing hybrid cloud and AI software, infrastructure and consulting. Its portfolio includes Red Hat OpenShift, the watsonx AI and data platform…
Evidence is still building for IBM.
- Scale AI#18 leader in AI & ML PlatformsCompare with Snowflake
Scale AI is a US artificial intelligence data company headquartered in San Francisco, California, founded in 2016 by Alexandr Wang and Lucy Guo. It provides training data, data…
Evidence is still building for Scale AI.
How this list is put together
Every company here shares at least one category with Snowflake. Each one appears once, under the first shared category, with Snowflake's main category first. The counts are published, moderated material anyone can read on Techarda: published solutions, stories from the last 90 days, community threads that name the company and published reviews. A count of zero is left out rather than shown.
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