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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
- Pricing
- Open source
- Pay per credit (~$2/credit)
- Pricing model
- Open source
- Paid
- Founded
- —
- 2012
- Location
- Amsterdam, Netherlands
- —
- Bootstrapped
- —
- —
- Open source
- Yes
- —
- Category
- —
- Business Intelligence & Data
- Indie alternatives
- 0
- 6
- Founders
- Mark Raasveldt, Hannes Mühleisen
- Benoît 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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