# Snowflake vs StarRocks

**Leader by vioscaleAI score:** Snowflake

| Attribute | Snowflake | StarRocks |
|---|---|---|
| **vioscaleAI score** | 68.1 (63% (medium)) | 46.6 (10% (low)) |
| content.faq | `[{"answer":"A fully managed cloud service that unifies data management and analytics across cloud providers, with native support for AI/ML workloads, zero-copy data sharing, and automatic scaling. It is indexed under Data Warehouse Software.","source":"https://www.snowflake.com/en/pricing-options/","question":"What is Snowflake?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Snowflake is sold across 3 plans: Standard, Enterprise and Business Critical. We have not confirmed a published price for every tier. There is no free tier. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.","source":"https://www.snowflake.com/en/pricing-options/","question":"How much does Snowflake cost?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Snowflake supports the web, Windows, macOS and a command-line interface. Platforms we have not confirmed are simply not listed here rather than ruled out.","source":"https://www.snowflake.com/en/pricing-options/","question":"What platforms does Snowflake support?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have only confirmed a cloud / SaaS deployment for Snowflake, so it appears to be vendor-hosted. If a self-hosted option exists we have not found it documented publicly.","source":"https://www.snowflake.com/en/pricing-options/","question":"Can Snowflake be self-hosted?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed 9 integrations for Snowflake, including AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, Streamlit, Apache Iceberg, PyTorch, NVIDIA and Jira, plus 1 more. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.","source":"https://www.snowflake.com/en/pricing-options/","question":"What does Snowflake integrate with?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have independently confirmed SOC 2, ISO 27001 and GDPR for Snowflake. Certifications we do not list are ones we have not been able to verify from public sources, which is not the same as Snowflake not holding them. Always confirm compliance directly before you rely on it.","source":"https://www.snowflake.com/security","question":"What security certifications does Snowflake have?","confidence":0.7}]` | `[{"answer":"A query engine delivering sub-second analytics performance, supporting direct access to multiple data lake formats without requiring data migration. It is indexed under Data Warehouse Software.","source":"https://www.starrocks.io","question":"What is StarRocks?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"StarRocks is open source, so it can be self-hosted and used at no licence cost. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.","source":"https://www.starrocks.io","question":"Is StarRocks free to use?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"StarRocks supports Linux and a command-line interface. Platforms we have not confirmed are simply not listed here rather than ruled out.","source":"https://www.starrocks.io","question":"What platforms does StarRocks support?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Yes. StarRocks can be deployed self-hosted, so it does not have to run on the vendor's infrastructure.","source":"https://www.starrocks.io","question":"Can StarRocks be self-hosted?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed 16 integrations for StarRocks, including Apache Iceberg, Apache Hudi, Apache Hive, Delta Lake, Apache Kafka, Airbyte, Apache Superset and Min.IO, plus 8 more. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.","source":"https://www.starrocks.io","question":"What does StarRocks integrate with?","confidence":0.6}]` |
| deployment.options | `{"cloud":true}` | `{"cloud":true,"self_hosted":true}` |
| description.long | 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. | An open-source analytical database that delivers sub-second query performance on both structured data and data lakes, serving real-time analytics and AI agents at scale. |
| features.capabilities | `{"hosting":"cloud","in_db_ml":true,"data_model":"relational","deployment":"managed","sql_support":true,"data_sharing":true,"compute_model":"virtual_warehouse","license_class":"proprietary","managed_cloud":true,"table_formats":"Apache Iceberg","semi_structured":"first_class","federation_query":true,"streaming_ingest":true,"acid_transactions":true,"horizontal_scaling":true,"concurrency_scaling":"automatic"}` | `{"in_db_ml":false,"deployment":"hybrid","sql_dialect":"ansi","architecture":"separated","data_sharing":false,"compute_model":"clusters","license_class":"source_available","table_formats":"Apache Iceberg, Apache Hudi, Apache Hive, Delta Lake","federation_query":true,"streaming_ingest":true,"concurrency_scaling":"manual"}` |
| integrations.count | 750 | 9 |
| integrations.list | `[{"name":"AWS"},{"name":"Microsoft Azure"},{"name":"Google Cloud Platform"},{"name":"Streamlit"},{"name":"Apache Iceberg"},{"name":"PyTorch"},{"name":"NVIDIA"},{"name":"Jira","native":true,"category":"development","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"GitHub","native":true,"category":"development","direction":"bidirectional"}]` | `[{"name":"Apache Iceberg"},{"name":"Apache Hudi"},{"name":"Apache Hive"},{"name":"Delta Lake"},{"name":"Apache Kafka"},{"name":"Airbyte"},{"name":"Apache Superset"},{"name":"Min.IO"},{"name":"dbt Labs"},{"name":"Alibaba Cloud EMR"},{"name":"AWS"},{"name":"ByteDance Volcano Engine"},{"name":"CelerData"},{"name":"Mirrorship"},{"name":"Apache Flink","native":true},{"name":"Grafana","native":true},{"name":"Apache Paimon","native":true},{"name":"dbt","native":true}]` |
| market.availability | `{"primaryMarkets":[],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` | `{"primaryMarkets":[],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` |
| platform.support | `{"web":true}` | `{"linux":true}` |
| pricing | `{"type":"usage","plans":[{"free":false,"name":"Standard","description":"Entry-level offering providing access to core platform functionality","contactSales":false},{"free":false,"name":"Enterprise","description":"For high-growth and large-scale customers with multi-cluster compute, governance and extended data retention","contactSales":false},{"free":false,"name":"Business Critical","description":"For highly regulated industries requiring advanced security and compliance capabilities","contactSales":true}],"currency":"USD","sourceUrl":"https://www.snowflake.com/en/pricing-options/","retrievedAt":"2026-10-05T12:39:26.501Z","billingPeriods":["month"]}` | `{"type":"open_source","summary":"Free and open source","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.starrocks.io","retrievedAt":"2026-08-16T21:36:41.823Z"}` |
| pricing.free_tier | no | yes |
| pricing.model | commercial | open_source |
| pricing.price_level | unknown | free |
| pricing.transparent | yes | - |
| reliability.status_page | yes | - |
| security.disclosure_policy | yes | - |
| security.fedramp | yes | - |
| security.gdpr | yes | - |
| security.iso27001 | yes | - |
| security.pci | yes | - |
| security.soc2 | yes | - |

## Capabilities (Data Warehouse Software)

| Capability | Snowflake | StarRocks |
|---|:--:|:--:|
| **Deployment** |  |  |
| Deployment | Managed cloud | Hybrid |
| **Architecture** |  |  |
| Architecture | - | Separated storage/compute |
| Compute model | Virtual warehouses | Clusters |
| **Query** |  |  |
| SQL dialect | - | ANSI SQL |
| Federation / lakehouse query-in-place | ✓ | ✓ |
| **Interoperability** |  |  |
| Table-format support | Apache Iceberg | Apache Iceberg, Apache Hudi, Apache Hive, Delta Lake |
| **Scale** |  |  |
| Concurrency scaling | Automatic | Manual |
| **Ingestion** |  |  |
| Streaming ingest | ✓ | ✓ |
| **Data model** |  |  |
| Semi-structured (JSON/VARIANT) | First-class | - |
| **Analytics** |  |  |
| ML / in-DB functions | ✓ | ✗ |
| **Sharing** |  |  |
| Data sharing / marketplace | ✓ | ✗ |
| **Licensing** |  |  |
| Licence class | Proprietary | Source-available |

*Source: vioscaleAI. Generated 2026-10-16T20:38:44.352Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*