# Snowflake vs Trino

**Leader by vioscaleAI score:** Snowflake

| Attribute | Snowflake | Trino |
|---|---|---|
| **vioscaleAI score** | 68.1 (63% (medium)) | 50.7 (54% (medium)) |
| activity.commits_last_30d | - | 100 |
| adoption.dependent_repos | - | 468 |
| adoption.github_stars | - | 13,330 |
| 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":"An open-source SQL query engine built for fast, distributed analytics over large-scale datasets stored in multiple systems. It enables users to query data in place without copying, supporting interactive analytics workloads from single queries to high-volume applications. It is indexed under Data Warehouse Software.","source":"https://trino.io","question":"What is Trino?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Trino is open source, so it can be self-hosted and used at no licence cost. It is released under the Apache-2.0 licence. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.","source":"https://trino.io","question":"Is Trino free to use?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Trino supports a command-line interface. Platforms we have not confirmed are simply not listed here rather than ruled out.","source":"https://trino.io","question":"What platforms does Trino support?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Yes. Trino can be deployed cloud / SaaS, on-premise and self-hosted, so it does not have to run on the vendor's infrastructure.","source":"https://trino.io","question":"Can Trino be self-hosted?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed 17 integrations for Trino, including Grafana, Apache Airflow, Apache DolphinScheduler, Coginiti, Cube, DBeaver, dbt and DbVisualizer, plus 9 more. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.","source":"https://trino.io","question":"What does Trino integrate with?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Yes. Trino is published under the Apache-2.0 licence, a permissive licence that generally allows commercial use and modification. Licence terms can change between releases, so verify against the repository for the version you intend to use.","source":"https://github.com/trinodb/trino","question":"Is Trino open source?","confidence":0.95}]` |
| deployment.options | `{"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. | Trino is an open-source SQL query engine designed for fast analytics on big data. It enables distributed querying across multiple data sources and integrates with numerous data processing, visualization, and analytics tools. |
| 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"}` | `{"deployment":"self","sql_dialect":"ansi","architecture":"coupled_mpp","compute_model":"clusters","license_class":"permissive","federation_query":true}` |
| integrations.count | 750 | 10 |
| 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":"Grafana"},{"name":"Apache Airflow"},{"name":"Apache DolphinScheduler"},{"name":"Coginiti"},{"name":"Cube"},{"name":"DBeaver"},{"name":"dbt"},{"name":"DbVisualizer"},{"name":"Emacs"},{"name":"Tableau"},{"name":"Power BI"},{"name":"Superset"},{"name":"R"},{"name":"Hadoop"},{"name":"S3"},{"name":"Cassandra"},{"name":"MySQL"},{"name":"Elasticsearch"},{"name":"Fugue","category":"data_processing"},{"name":"Logi Symphony","category":"analytics"},{"name":"Mitzu","category":"product_analytics"},{"name":"DolphinScheduler","category":"workflow_scheduling"},{"name":"Cognos Analytics","category":"business_intelligence"},{"name":"MicroStrategy","category":"business_intelligence"},{"name":"JupySQL","category":"notebooks"},{"name":"SQuirrel SQL","category":"database_client"},{"name":"Zing Data","category":"analytics"},{"name":"Trino CLI","native":true,"category":"client"}]` |
| language.primary | - | Java |
| license.spdx | - | Apache-2.0 |
| market.availability | `{"primaryMarkets":[],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` | `{"primaryMarkets":[],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` |
| platform.support | `{"web":true}` | `{"cli":true,"mac":true,"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","sourceUrl":"https://trino.io","retrievedAt":"2026-10-13T15:15:20.514Z"}` |
| pricing.free_tier | no | yes |
| pricing.model | commercial | open_source |
| pricing.price_level | unknown | free |
| pricing.transparent | yes | yes |
| release.cadence_days | - | 45 |
| release.history | - | `[{"url":"https://github.com/trinodb/trino/releases/tag/483","date":"2026-07-18T01:28:57Z","type":"stable","version":"483"},{"url":"https://github.com/trinodb/trino/releases/tag/482","date":"2026-06-25T19:22:28Z","type":"stable","version":"482"},{"url":"https://github.com/trinodb/trino/releases/tag/481","date":"2026-05-12T01:03:57Z","type":"stable","version":"481"},{"url":"https://github.com/trinodb/trino/releases/tag/480","date":"2026-03-24T23:06:31Z","type":"stable","version":"480"},{"url":"https://github.com/trinodb/trino/releases/tag/479","date":"2025-12-15T03:19:30Z","type":"stable","version":"479"},{"url":"https://github.com/trinodb/trino/releases/tag/478","date":"2025-10-29T18:42:57Z","type":"stable","version":"478"},{"url":"https://github.com/trinodb/trino/releases/tag/477","date":"2025-09-25T00:32:51Z","type":"stable","version":"477"}]` |
| reliability.status_page | yes | - |
| security.disclosure_policy | yes | - |
| security.fedramp | yes | - |
| security.gdpr | yes | - |
| security.iso27001 | yes | - |
| security.pci | yes | - |
| security.scorecard | - | 5.6 |
| security.soc2 | yes | - |
| security.vulnerabilities | - | `{"count":0,"source":"https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=maven&package_name=io.trino%3Atrino-jdbc&per_page=100","last_12m":0,"max_severity":null}` |

## Capabilities (Data Warehouse Software)

| Capability | Snowflake | Trino |
|---|:--:|:--:|
| **Deployment** |  |  |
| Deployment | Managed cloud | Self-hosted |
| **Architecture** |  |  |
| Architecture | - | Coupled MPP |
| Compute model | Virtual warehouses | Clusters |
| **Query** |  |  |
| SQL dialect | - | ANSI SQL |
| Federation / lakehouse query-in-place | ✓ | ✓ |
| **Interoperability** |  |  |
| Table-format support | Apache Iceberg | - |
| **Scale** |  |  |
| Concurrency scaling | Automatic | - |
| **Ingestion** |  |  |
| Streaming ingest | ✓ | - |
| **Data model** |  |  |
| Semi-structured (JSON/VARIANT) | First-class | - |
| **Analytics** |  |  |
| ML / in-DB functions | ✓ | - |
| **Sharing** |  |  |
| Data sharing / marketplace | ✓ | - |
| **Licensing** |  |  |
| Licence class | Proprietary | Permissive OSS |

*Source: vioscaleAI. Generated 2026-10-16T21:23:54.553Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*