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DuckDB vs Snowflake
Pricing, founders, indie status and curated alternatives compared from our directory — all data points sourced from each tool's public site or press materials.
Snowflake
Cloud data warehouse for analytics.
Business Intelligence & DataPaid · Pay per credit (~$2/credit)
At a glanceDuckDBSnowflake
At a glance
- Pricing
- DuckDBOpen source
- SnowflakePay per credit (~$2/credit)
- Pricing model
- DuckDBOpen source
- SnowflakePaid
- Founded
- DuckDB—
- Snowflake2012
- Location
- DuckDBAmsterdam, Netherlands
- Snowflake—
- Bootstrapped
- DuckDB—
- Snowflake—
- Open source
- DuckDBYes
- Snowflake—
- Category
- DuckDB—
- SnowflakeBusiness Intelligence & Data
- Indie alternatives
- DuckDB0
- Snowflake6
- Founders
- DuckDBMark Raasveldt, Hannes Mühleisen
- SnowflakeBenoît Dageville, Thierry Cruanes, Marcin Żukowski
Key differences
Funding
DuckDB is bootstrapped / open source; Snowflake is venture-backed.
Open source
DuckDB is open source; Snowflake is closed source.
Indie alternatives
DuckDB has 0 curated indie alternatives in our directory; Snowflake has 6.
Differences are derived directly from the data on each tool's page. Empty fields mean we haven't verified a value yet — never that one tool lacks the capability.
Founders of Snowflake
- Benoît DagevilleCo-founder
- Thierry CruanesCo-founder
- Marcin ŻukowskiCo-founder
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