Databricks alternatives
2 resources that do what Databricks does: compare pricing, platforms and what each one does best.
Quick comparison
| Resource | Pricing | From | Platforms | Origin |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pay as you go | — | WebAPICLI | 🇺🇸 United States | |
| Pay as you go | — | WebAPICLI | 🇺🇸 United States | |
| Pay as you go | — | WebAPICLI | 🇺🇸 United States |
Alternatives picked by the editor


BigQuery
Pay as you go
Google's serverless data warehouse: SQL queries with nothing to manage
- Serverless: no clusters to size or shut down
- 1 TiB of queries and 10 GiB of storage free every month
- A careless query on big tables can get expensive, so set quotas


Snowflake
Pay as you go
Cloud data platform for analytics, applications and AI
- Storage and compute are separate, so each workload scales on its own
- Runs on AWS, Azure and Google Cloud
- Costs climb fast if warehouses stay on or are oversized