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Infobright DB vs Snowflake comparison

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Feb 1, 2026

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Categories and Ranking

Infobright DB
Ranking in Data Warehouse
19th
Average Rating
7.6
Reviews Sentiment
6.3
Number of Reviews
10
Ranking in other categories
Relational Databases Tools (38th)
Snowflake
Ranking in Data Warehouse
1st
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
108
Ranking in other categories
Cloud Data Warehouse (1st), AI Synthetic Data (1st), Database Management Systems (DBMS) (4th), AI Software Development (10th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2026, in the Data Warehouse category, the mindshare of Infobright DB is 2.2%, up from 1.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Snowflake is 8.9%, down from 12.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Data Warehouse Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Snowflake8.9%
Infobright DB2.2%
Other88.9%
Data Warehouse
 

Featured Reviews

it_user708987 - PeerSpot reviewer
MySQL DBA at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees
Excellent reporting server that is compatible with MySQL
We ran into some quirks that Infobright had. We interacted with Infobright's support and were able to resolve them. There still are issues with data replication - Infobright is currently for one server (unless you buy the Infobright appliance). This would mean that redundancy is something you need to implement yourself.
SunilPatil1 - PeerSpot reviewer
Asset Builder at Genpact - Headstrong
Have prioritized security while managing multi-agent data migration and cloud adoption
We utilize Time Travel with Snowflake because this is a very useful feature. Everyone finds it crucial because in conventional data platforms, it's very difficult to handle these kinds of things. This feature is essential, though I don't have the use cases currently; it is just there for implementation. Regarding Snowflake's automated scaling and suspension features, this auto-scaling is very significant. We had a comparison with Databricks and Snowflake a few months back, and this auto-scaling takes an edge within Snowflake; that's what our observation reflects.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"We now have multiple times faster queries in comparison to MS SQL."
"It has very amazing smart grid query feature for very fast aggregate queries across millions of rows"
"ICE helped us improve the speed for the “group-by” query by 10x."
"It is very straightforward and easy to work with."
"Infobright gave us the ability to avoid significant changes in our data structure and just use Infobright like BigDataMySql."
"A valuable feature was the use of a columnar database for large, ever-growing, big datasets."
"The high compression and the relatively fast load for a free product."
"The performance of ad hoc aggregation queries is superior to any RDBMS that I have used and I have used them all."
"We switched to Snowflake for the availability, security, and loading times."
"The technical support from Snowflake is very good, nice, and efficient."
"Snowflake is faster than on-premise systems and allows for variable compute power based on need."
"The product's most important feature is unloading data to S3."
"Its speed and performance were the most valuable, and the easy configuration of Snowflake in any cloud was also a benefit."
"It is a very easy-to-use solution. It is user-friendly, and its setup time is very less."
"It is quite easy to manage."
"Very easy to use and easy to query."
 

Cons

"MPP, distributed processing!!! And better integration with Hadoop."
"Only the data from the columns that reached 2GB will actually decrease. Other columns below 2GB in size do not leave the disk."
"When running a complex subquery, the system hangs without giving the user any response."
"There was no scalability at all. Infobright didn't permit any changes in tables."
"There still are issues with data replication - Infobright is currently for one server (unless you buy the Infobright appliance)."
"After all the re-work to our product to remove as much reliance on Infobright, and the extra hardware costs we had to absorb, there was definitely a negative return on investment."
"We didn’t purchase the Enterprise Edition because it was too expensive for a product that wasn’t going to replace our main DWH database (Oracle), but was, somehow, only an addition for it."
"On the contrary, we have switched back to the MS SSAS Tabular Model, because of pricing policy."
"Snowflake has to improve their spatial components since it doesn't have much in terms of geo-spatial queries."
"From the documentation, the black box is not very descriptive. Snowflake does not reveal how exactly the data is processed or sourced."
"Sizing seems to be a bit of trial and error."
"It would benefit from an administration that allows you to be aware of your credit consumption once you have the service so that you may be sure how many credits you are consuming when you use the platform and to make sure that you are making the most efficient use of these resources. In other words, to improve their interface so that you may monitor the consumption of your credits on Cloud."
"We would like to be able to do modeling with Snowflake. It should support statistical modeling."
"Snowpipe auto-ingest should be automatic."
"Users considering adding the solution should understand that Snowflake can be used only for transactional processing, not for analytical processing."
"If they could bring in some tools for data integration, it would be really great."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Our pricing was based on server instances and it was actually very cheap compared to Oracle. I guess you get what you pay for."
"The solution is costly, making it unsuitable for midsize organizations due to its price."
"Snowflake has consumption-based costs; users only pay for storage and computing."
"Pricing is approximately $US 50 per DB. Terabyte is around $US 50 per month."
"We used Snowflake to see if it is cheaper than using BigQuery. It was just to maintain the cost or the KPI regarding the cost of connectivity by users. Snowflake wasn't cheaper than BigQuery, and its affordability was the main issue."
"I am not much aware of the price, but based on what I have analyzed so far, its cost is reasonable as compared to on-prem data warehouse solutions. It provides a great deal for production."
"We're based on credits. So, we're paying four and a half dollars of credit. There are no additional costs. I would rate it a two out of five in terms of pricing."
"There is a separation of storage and compute, so you only pay for what you use."
"They give a different price for every single company. I don't know if I negotiated that well, but we got the enterprise tier for $3 a credit, and the other two were a dollar-ninety a credit. I suspect we don't have almost zero compute usage, but I know that our annual contract packages are below all of their minimums."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Manufacturing Company
22%
Construction Company
15%
Outsourcing Company
11%
Comms Service Provider
10%
Financial Services Firm
17%
Manufacturing Company
11%
Outsourcing Company
9%
Comms Service Provider
6%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business8
Midsize Enterprise1
Large Enterprise2
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business31
Midsize Enterprise20
Large Enterprise61
 

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Snowflake?
We find the metering and billing experience for Snowflake to be expensive because there are many limitations to what it can do. When we compared performance-wise and cost-wise to Bedrock for some o...
What needs improvement with Snowflake?
Lessons learned about our main use case or how Snowflake performed in those areas include that the sales representatives do not really understand the product, and that the solutions consultants bas...
What is your primary use case for Snowflake?
Our main use case for Snowflake was to ingest data, use it for search, analytics, and data sharing with our customers; however, in reality, those use cases did not work. When it came to our challen...
 

Also Known As

Infobright
Snowflake Computing, Snowflake Data Cloud
 

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Sample Customers

REZ-1, SonicWALL, IntegriChain, Fuseforward International Inc., Polystar, Live Rail, Mavenir Systems, JDSU Partners, Bango
Accordant Media, Adobe, Kixeye Inc., Revana, SOASTA, White Ops
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