Hotdata vs Snowflake

Faster than an X-Large Snowflake warehouse

Without paying for one.

At a glance

Topic	Hotdata	Snowflake
What it is	A Rust query engine built for low latency at high concurrency.	A cloud data warehouse.
Where data lives	Queries your sources in place, or Parquet in an instant database.	Loaded into Snowflake storage.
Deployment	In your VPC, run by us. Or fully managed.	Managed service.
Pricing	Compute runs only while queries run.	Per-warehouse credits. Bigger warehouses cost more.
Concurrency	5× faster than Snowflake with 10 concurrent clients.	Latency rises past 10 streams.
Snapshots and copies	Snapshots, time travel, and forks.	Zero-copy clones.
Search	Vector, full-text, and geospatial in one SQL query.	Vector and keyword search functions.
SQL	Postgres-familiar HotSQL. PostgreSQL, DuckDB, Snowflake, and ClickHouse SQL run as written.	Snowflake SQL.

5× faster than Snowflake, with 10 clients querying at once.

p95 query latency

You need answers 5× faster, on half the vCPUs.
Concurrency keeps climbing, and sizing up to an X-Large warehouse isn't the answer.
Your apps need vector, full-text, and SQL filters in one query.
You want it in your own VPC, run for you.
Your Snowflake SQL should run as written.

Connect Snowflake as a read-only source and join it with everything else. Snowflake SQL runs as written.

We deploy Hotdata into your own VPC and operate it for you. If you would rather not run any infrastructure, a fully managed option is also available.

Security: Your data stays in your own cloud account. You keep control of the infrastructure, access, and keys.
Performance: Hotdata runs in the same network as your databases and object storage, so reads stay inside your cloud.