# Comprehensive Comparison: Singdata Lakehouse vs. Snowflake, Databricks, and BigQuery

This comprehensive comparison delivers an in-depth analysis of Singdata Lakehouse's positioning and advantages against industry-leading competitors Snowflake, Databricks, and BigQuery.

Our evaluation prioritizes performance and cost—the two factors organizations care about most—before examining three additional dimensions critical for modern data analytics solutions, providing you with a clear and thorough foundation for decision-making.

1. Singdata delivers best performance in all 3 scenarios, followed by Snowflake. In real-time analytics testing, Singdata is 2.6x-9.6x faster.
2. Singdata is 3x-6x lower in cost than Snowflake and 6x-12x lower than Databricks.
3. From an architectural perspective, Singdata offers an advanced Lakehouse architecture similar to Databricks, combined with the ease of use and maintenance-free features akin to Snowflake. It brings together the best of both worlds.

**Performance & Cost**:

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Based on the benchmark performance comparison chart, Singdata demonstrates significant performance advantages across all three tested workloads（For detailed metrics, please refer to the table below.）

1. SSB-FLAT 100GB (Real-time Analytics)

2. TPC-H 100GB(Small-scale Reporting/BI Workloads)

3. TPC-DS 1TB(Complex Queries)

**Exceptional performance translates to reduced costs**:

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Following our summary of Performance and Cost factors, we extend our analysis to cover three additional critical dimensions: Architecture, Scalability, and Use Cases. These five evaluation criteria collectively provide a holistic view of each platform's capabilities, limitations, and ideal implementation scenarios, with detailed metrics presented in the comparative tables below. This comprehensive framework enables you to make an informed decision that aligns with your organization's specific data strategy requirements.

1\. **Architecture**

|                                                   | ![](.topwrite/assets/d33edb049c/5fb9f76a0967823749b634044213fed99d77c62b.png =50)&#xA;Singdata                            | ![](.topwrite/assets/d33edb049c/76d05b199a886af460a051279cd95b11fd2abc21.png =50)&#xA;Snowflake  | ![](.topwrite/assets/d33edb049c/73c2df840d19f5b449bef8ee02d520decc2c5655.png =50)&#xA;Databricks                                                     | ![](.topwrite/assets/d33edb049c/c49a1b7f1c44b419e3a8c3b5b324879a025a6aa1.png =50)&#xA;BigQuery        |
| ------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Storage/Compute Separation                        | Yes                                                                                                                       | Yes                                                                                              | Yes                                                                                                                                                  | Yes                                                                                                   |
| Supported cloud infrastructure                    | AWS / GCP / Alibaba Cloud / Tencent Cloud / Huawei Cloud                                                                  | AWS, Azure, GCP                                                                                  | AWS, Azure, Google Cloud                                                                                                                             | Google Cloud Only                                                                                     |
| Deployment Mode                                   | • SaaS&#xA;• VPC On Premise                                                                                               | SaaS  – Isolated tenancy available via “VPS” tier                                                | Hybrid of SaaS and PaaS(BYOC)                                                                                                                        | SaaS                                                                                                  |
| Isolated tenancy – option for dedicated resources | Multi-tenant pooled resources  – Isolated tenancy available via “VPC” tier                                                | Multi-tenant pooled resources  – Isolated tenancy available via “VPS” tier                       | Control plane in Databricks account; Data Plane in customer VPC (optional), Storage in customer VPC. Serverless SQL runs in Multi-tenant environment | Multi-tenant pooled resources  – “VPC Service Controls” can be used to limit connectivity to your VPC |
| Control vs abstraction of compute                 | Configurable cluster size (1-128 nodes, 256 and 512 in preview)  – Compute types：  • General Purpose    • Analysis Purpos | Configurable cluster size (1-128 nodes, 256 and 512 in preview)  – No control over compute types | Configurable clusters and instance types.  Serverless option runs in Databricks VPC using containers                                                 | Serverless, no control over compute (BigQuery determines how many “slots” each query needs)           |

2\. **Scalability**

|                                                                 | ![](.topwrite/assets/d33edb049c/5fb9f76a0967823749b634044213fed99d77c62b.png =50)&#xA;Singdata | ![](.topwrite/assets/d33edb049c/76d05b199a886af460a051279cd95b11fd2abc21.png =50)&#xA;Snowflake | ![](.topwrite/assets/d33edb049c/73c2df840d19f5b449bef8ee02d520decc2c5655.png =50)&#xA;Databricks | ![](.topwrite/assets/d33edb049c/c49a1b7f1c44b419e3a8c3b5b324879a025a6aa1.png =50)&#xA;BigQuery |
| --------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Elasticity – Scaling for larger data volumes and faster queries | Yes&#xA;Autoscaling cluster with sub-second latency                                            | Yes&#xA;Cluster resize                                                                          | Yes&#xA;Autoscaling clusters in minutes                                                          | Serverless or slots autoscaling                                                                |
| Elasticity – Scaling for higher concurrency                     | Yes&#xA;Concurrency Scaling with sub-second latency                                            | Automatic Concurrency Scaling                                                                   | Partially supported by SQL warehouses  10 queries per cluster limit.                             | Automatic query execution scaling with multi-slot resource management                          |

3\. **Performance**

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| Benchmark                                               | Duration         | ![](.topwrite/assets/d33edb049c/5fb9f76a0967823749b634044213fed99d77c62b.png =50)&#xA;Singdata | ![](.topwrite/assets/d33edb049c/76d05b199a886af460a051279cd95b11fd2abc21.png =50)&#xA;Snowflake | ![](.topwrite/assets/d33edb049c/73c2df840d19f5b449bef8ee02d520decc2c5655.png =50)&#xA;Databricks | ![](.topwrite/assets/d33edb049c/c49a1b7f1c44b419e3a8c3b5b324879a025a6aa1.png =50)&#xA;BigQuery |
| ------------------------------------------------------- | ---------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **SSB-FLAT 100GB** \[*Real-time Analytics*]             | Duration(Second) | 1.9                                                                                            | 5.0                                                                                             | 12.7                                                                                             | 9.3                                                                                            |
|                                                         | Compute Config   | XLarge(128 vCore)                                                                              | XLarge(128 vCore)                                                                               | Large                                                                                            | Standard 600 Slot                                                                              |
| **TPC-H 100GB** \[*Small-scale Reporting/BI Workloads*] | Duration(Second) | 22.7                                                                                           | 28.36                                                                                           | 50.6                                                                                             | 201                                                                                            |
|                                                         | Compute Config   | XLarge(128 vCore)                                                                              | XLarge(128 vCore)                                                                               | Large                                                                                            | Standard 600 Slot                                                                              |
| **TPC-DS 1TB** \[*Complex Queries*]                     | Duration(Second) | 208                                                                                            | 314                                                                                             | 386                                                                                              | 1248                                                                                           |
|                                                         | Compute Config   | XLarge(128 vCore)                                                                              | XLarge(128 vCore)                                                                               | Large                                                                                            | Standard 600 Slot                                                                              |

| Note  For this benchmark, no special tuning was applied. Singdata, Snowflake , Databricks and BigQuery were used with their default settings. |
| --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |

4\. **Cost**

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|                                                         | ![](.topwrite/assets/d33edb049c/5fb9f76a0967823749b634044213fed99d77c62b.png =50)&#xA;Singdata                                                                                      | ![](.topwrite/assets/d33edb049c/76d05b199a886af460a051279cd95b11fd2abc21.png =50)&#xA;Snowflake                                                                                                | ![](.topwrite/assets/d33edb049c/73c2df840d19f5b449bef8ee02d520decc2c5655.png =50)&#xA;Databricks                                                                      | ![](.topwrite/assets/d33edb049c/c49a1b7f1c44b419e3a8c3b5b324879a025a6aa1.png =50)&#xA;BigQuery |
| ------------------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Region                                                  | AWS, Singapore                                                                                                                                                                      | AWS, AP Singapore                                                                                                                                                                              | AWS, AP Singapore                                                                                                                                                     | Singapore                                                                                      |
| Pricing(USD)                                            | [0.0044 CRU/Second](vcluster_size_description.md) XLarge [$1.24/CRU\*h](pricing.md)  Enterprise Edition  $0.0055/Second | [0.0044 Credit/Second](https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/warehouses-overview) XLarge [$2.50 /credit](https://www.snowflake.com/en/pricing-options/)\*h  Standard Edition  $0.011/Second | [$0.0011 DBU /Second](https://www.databricks.com/product/pricing/product-pricing/instance-types)   SQL Serverless Large $0.88/DBU\*h  Premium Edition  $0.0098/Second | Standard  $0.049 slot/hour  300 Slot: $**0.0039/Second**  600 Slot:  $0.0082/Second            |
| **SSB-FLAT 100GB** \[*Real-time Analytics*]             | $ 0.010                                                                                                                                                                             | $0.059                                                                                                                                                                                         | $0.12                                                                                                                                                                 | $0.08                                                                                          |
| **TPC-H 100GB** \[*Small-scale Reporting/BI Workloads*] | $0.12                                                                                                                                                                               | $0.31                                                                                                                                                                                          | $0.50                                                                                                                                                                 | $0.16                                                                                          |
| **TPC-DS 1TB** \[*Small-scale ETL Workloads*]           | $2.21                                                                                                                                                                               | $5.39                                                                                                                                                                                          | $6.32                                                                                                                                                                 | $10.23                                                                                         |

5\. **Use Cases**

|                       | ![](.topwrite/assets/d33edb049c/5fb9f76a0967823749b634044213fed99d77c62b.png =50)&#xA;Singdata | ![](.topwrite/assets/d33edb049c/76d05b199a886af460a051279cd95b11fd2abc21.png =50)&#xA;Snowflake | ![](.topwrite/assets/d33edb049c/73c2df840d19f5b449bef8ee02d520decc2c5655.png =50)&#xA;Databricks                                                                                       | ![](.topwrite/assets/d33edb049c/c49a1b7f1c44b419e3a8c3b5b324879a025a6aa1.png =50)&#xA;BigQuery |
| --------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Batch Data Process    | Yes,SQL and Zettapark                                                                          | Yes,SQL and Snowpark                                                                            | Yes, Spark SQL Declarative ETL framework simplifying batch and streaming development                                                                                                   | Yes,SQL and Serverless Spark                                                                   |
| Continous Pipeline    | Streaming Ingestion：Append/Upsert  Table Stream , Dynamic Table                                | Snowpipe&#xA;Streaming&#xA;Stream+Task, Dynamic Table                                           | **Structured Streaming**: Append/Upsert  **Auto Loader**: Automatically detects and processes new data files  **Delta Live Tables**: Supports streaming tables and streaming pipelines | Yes,SQL and Serverless Spark                                                                   |
| BI/Ad-hoc             | Yes                                                                                            | Yes                                                                                             | Yes                                                                                                                                                                                    | Yes                                                                                            |
| Operational Analytics | Yes&#xA;Real-time CDC replication  Enable sub-second, high-concurrency analytics at scale      | Yes&#xA;Query acceleration: Optimized performance for operational workloads                     | Limited support                                                                                                                                                                        | Yes                                                                                            |

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