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Comparison

Delta Lake vs Snowflake

On the evidence we track, Snowflake leads this comparison with a composite score of 68/100. Scores are only directly comparable because these tools share a category; the full breakdown and every source is below.

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Delta Lake61
★Snowflake68
Score
vioscaleAI score
Delta Lake61 / 100medium · 58%
Snowflake68 / 100medium · 63%
Pricing
Free tier
Delta Lake✓
Snowflake✗
Model
Delta Lakeopen_source
Snowflakecommercial
Price level
Delta Lakefree
Snowflakeunknown
Transparent
Delta Lake–
Snowflake✓
Integrations
Count
Delta Lake15
Snowflake750
Security
Disclosure policy
Delta Lake–
Snowflake✓
Fedramp
Delta Lake–
Snowflake✓
Gdpr
Delta Lake–
Snowflake✓
Iso27001
Delta Lake–
Snowflake✓
Pci
Delta Lake–
Snowflake✓
Scorecard
Delta Lake6.2
Snowflake–
Soc2
Delta Lake–
Snowflake✓
Vulnerabilities
Reliability
Status page
Delta Lake–
Snowflake✓
Adoption
Dependent repos
Delta Lake152
Snowflake–
Github stars
Delta Lake9,042
Snowflake–
Package downloads weekly
Delta Lake6,751,062
Snowflake–
Activity
Commits last 30d
Delta Lake100
Snowflake–
Release
Cadence days
Delta Lake50
Snowflake–
History
Delta Lake20 items
Snowflake–
License
Spdx
Delta LakeApache-2.0
Snowflake–
Language
Primary
Delta LakeScala
Snowflake–
Market
Availability
Content
Faq
Delta Lake5 items
Snowflake6 items

Capabilities

Feature-by-feature on the axes that matter for data warehouse software. “-” means undocumented, not absent.

Deployment
Deployment
Delta LakeSelf-hosted
SnowflakeManaged cloud
Architecture
Architecture
Delta LakeSeparated storage/compute
Snowflake-
Compute model
Delta Lake-
SnowflakeVirtual warehouses
Query
SQL dialect
Delta Lake-
Snowflake-
Federation / lakehouse query-in-place
Delta Lake✓
Snowflake✓
Interoperability
Table-format support
Delta LakeDelta, Iceberg, Hudi
SnowflakeApache Iceberg
Scale
Concurrency scaling
Delta Lake-
SnowflakeAutomatic
Ingestion
Streaming ingest
Delta Lake✓
Snowflake✓
Data model
Semi-structured (JSON/VARIANT)
Delta LakeFirst-class
SnowflakeFirst-class
Analytics
ML / in-DB functions
Delta Lake-
Snowflake✓
Sharing
Data sharing / marketplace
Delta Lake✓
Snowflake✓
Licensing
Licence class
Delta LakePermissive OSS
SnowflakeProprietary

What each one is

The product in its own terms, so the numbers below have context.

Delta Lake

A storage framework enabling lakehouse architectures—unified platforms combining data warehouse and data lake capabilities—that works with multiple query engines and can be deployed on any cloud, on-premises, or locally.

Independently observed

Snowflake

Leader

Snowflake is a fully managed cloud service that unifies data storage, analytics, machine learning and AI capabilities in a single platform. It enables organizations to process structured and unstructured data, build AI applications and share live data across organizations and cloud environments.

Independently observed

Pricing

List pricing as published by each vendor, with the date we read it. Always verify at the source before you buy.

Delta Lake

Open sourceFree tier
as of verify ↗

Snowflake

Leader
Usage-based
  • Standard-
  • Enterprise-
  • Business CriticalContact sales
as of verify ↗

Platform & deployment

Where each product runs and how it can be hosted. A dash means undocumented, not unsupported.

Platforms
Web
Delta Lake–
Snowflake✓
Deployment
Cloud / SaaS
Delta Lake✗
Snowflake✓
Self-hosted
Delta Lake✓
Snowflake✗

Integrations

What each product connects to. Counts come from the vendor's own integration directory where one exists.

In common (1)
  • Apache Iceberg

Delta Lake

35 total - 34 not shared
  • Apache Spark
  • Apache Flink
  • Apache Hive
  • Apache Pulsar
  • Apache Druid
  • ClickHouse
  • Trino
  • PrestoDB
  • StarRocks
  • RisingWave
  • Dagster
  • Hopsworks
  • MLflow
  • Kafka
  • AWS Athena
  • AWS EMR
  • AWS Glue
  • Azure Stream Analytics
  • Google BigQuery
  • Snowflake
  • Databricks
  • AWS Redshift
  • Microsoft Fabric
  • Power BI
  • +10 more
Independently observed

Snowflake

Leader
9 total - 8 not shared
  • AWS
  • Microsoft Azure
  • Google Cloud Platform
  • Streamlit
  • PyTorch
  • NVIDIA
  • Jira
  • GitHub
Independently observed
Still deciding?

Delta Lake or Snowflake: which one depends on you

A composite score cannot know your constraints. Describe them and both get re-weighted against what you actually need, with the evidence behind every position.

Free to run, no account needed to start. How the evaluation works

Comparison generated from independently-sourced facts. Every value links to its source and retrieval date. See the method.