Top 20 data warehouse platforms by AI search visibility (2026)
Data warehouse platforms used to centralize analytics data, power BI workloads, support modern data stacks, and run large-scale reporting and modeling. Ranked by a composite score: 70% visibility (% of AI answers naming the brand) + 30% citation rate (% citing the brand's domain). Full methodology →
Refreshed Jun 06, 2026At a glance
What we observed in this categoryauto-generated
Snowflake leads the data warehouse platforms category with a visibility score of 50.0%, more than 12 percentage points ahead of Google BigQuery and Databricks, both tied at 37.5%. The category average visibility sits at just 6.9%, meaning Snowflake's score is more than seven times the norm. This gap is consequential: brands outside the top three — including legacy players like Oracle and Teradata — register 0% visibility, suggesting AI Mode has effectively collapsed the competitive field to a small cluster of modern cloud-native platforms.
The most striking divergence between visibility and citation occurs at rank four: ClickHouse holds 0% visibility yet commands a 62.5% citation rate, the highest of any brand in the dataset. This means AI Mode references ClickHouse as a source without actively featuring it in prompted brand narratives. Conversely, Amazon Redshift holds 12.5% visibility but 0% citation — it is named but never trusted as a source. This named-vs-trusted split reveals that AI Mode treats brand mention and source credibility as entirely separate signals in this category.
The top cited sources for this category are dominated by third-party and community platforms — domo.com, reddit.com, skyvia.com, fivetran.com, and integrate.io — rather than the warehouse vendors' own domains. clickhouse.com is the only vendor domain appearing in the top cited sources list, which aligns with its anomalously high citation rate of 62.5%. All top brands are concentrated on Google AI Mode as their lead engine, with no alternative engine providing a counterweight, indicating this category's AI visibility landscape is currently a single-engine phenomenon.
Movers & shakers since last refresh
Biggest visibility risers
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Snowflake 0% → 50% · rank #0 → #1+50pp
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Google BigQuery 0% → 38% · rank #0 → #2+38pp
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Databricks 0% → 38% · rank #0 → #3+38pp
The ranking
| # | Brand | Visibility | Citation | Top engine |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
snowflake.com
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50% | 12% | Google AI Mode |
Snowflake's 50.0% visibility is more than seven times the 6.9% category average, but its 12.5% citation rate lags well behind BigQuery and Databricks at 25.0%. |
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| 2 |
cloud.google.com
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38% | 25% | Google AI Mode |
Google BigQuery matches Databricks exactly at 37.5% visibility and 25.0% citation, making it the strongest citation performer among the top three despite ranking second. |
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| 3 |
databricks.com
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38% | 25% | Google AI Mode |
Databricks ties Google BigQuery with a 37.5% visibility and 25.0% citation rate, but trails Snowflake by 12.5 visibility points despite an identical composite score of 33.8. |
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| 4 |
clickhouse.com
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0% | 62% | Google AI Mode |
ClickHouse is the category's sharpest anomaly: 0% visibility but a 62.5% citation rate — the highest in the dataset — indicating AI Mode trusts it as a source without featuring it as a brand. |
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| 5 |
aws.amazon.com
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12% | 0% | Google AI Mode |
Amazon Redshift achieves 12.5% visibility but 0% citation, placing it above the category average for visibility while being entirely absent as a trusted reference source. |
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| 6 |
firebolt.io
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0% | 25% | Google AI Mode |
| 7 |
teradata.com
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0% | 12% | Google AI Mode |
| 8 |
singlestore.com
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0% | 0% | Google AI Mode |
| 9 |
yellowbrick.com
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0% | 0% | Google AI Mode |
| 10 |
oracle.com
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0% | 0% | Google AI Mode |
| 11 |
ibm.com
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0% | 0% | Google AI Mode |
| 12 |
dremio.com
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0% | 0% | Google AI Mode |
| 13 |
starburst.io
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0% | 0% | Google AI Mode |
| 14 |
cloudera.com
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0% | 0% | Google AI Mode |
| 15 |
sap.com
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0% | 0% | Google AI Mode |
| 16 |
actian.com
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0% | 0% | Google AI Mode |
| 17 |
mariadb.com
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0% | 0% | Google AI Mode |
| 18 |
opentext.com
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0% | 0% | Google AI Mode |
| 19 |
exasol.com
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0% | 0% | Google AI Mode |
| 20 |
azure.microsoft.com
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0% | 0% | Google AI Mode |
Sources AI engines trust in this category
Across the 8 buyer-intent queries we ran on data warehouse platforms, these are the domains Google AI Mode cited most often. If you're not on this list — or if your competitors are — that's a concrete PR / linkbuilding target.
How to read this ranking
Four things worth knowing before you act on the numbers above. These are the same definitions across every industry page — for category-specific observations, see the What we observed section above (where available) and the per-brand insights inline in the ranking.
Visibility = being named
A brand's visibility % is the share of AI answers that mention it by name in the response prose. This is who AI engines actively recommend to the buyer.
Citation rate = being trusted
Citation rate is the share of AI answers that include the brand's domain as a clickable source link. This is what the AI treats as authoritative evidence — different from being named.
Top engine differs by brand
The "top engine" column shows which AI surface each brand performs best on. Big gaps between a brand's score across engines usually points to specific content or schema gaps.
Rankings move month to month
AI engines re-crawl and re-rank on shorter cycles than classical search. We re-audit every brand on this list at least every 30 days and refresh this page automatically.
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Frequently asked about data warehouse platforms AI visibility
Who leads AI visibility in the data warehouse platforms category?
Snowflake leads with a 50.0% visibility score and a composite score of 38.8, well ahead of Google BigQuery and Databricks, both at 37.5% visibility. The category average is just 6.9%, making Snowflake's lead substantial.
Which data warehouse brand is most cited by Google AI Mode even though it lacks brand visibility?
ClickHouse has a 62.5% citation rate — the highest in the category — despite recording 0% visibility, meaning AI Mode uses its domain as a reference source but does not feature it prominently in brand-level responses.
What sources does AI cite most for data warehouse platform research?
The top cited sources include domo.com, reddit.com, skyvia.com, clickhouse.com, fivetran.com, and integrate.io — most of which are third-party or community platforms rather than the warehouse vendors' own domains.
How wide is the AI visibility gap between leaders and the rest of the category?
The top three brands range from 37.5% to 50.0% visibility, while seven of the top ten brands register 0% visibility, and the 20-brand category average is only 6.9%, indicating a highly concentrated landscape.
Does high brand visibility in this category guarantee high citation rates?
No — Amazon Redshift has 12.5% visibility but 0% citation, while ClickHouse has 0% visibility and 62.5% citation, demonstrating that AI Mode treats named brand prominence and trusted source citation as independent signals.
Which engine drives AI visibility for data warehouse platforms?
Google AI Mode is the top engine for every brand in the dataset without exception, suggesting this category's AI visibility landscape is entirely dependent on a single engine with no meaningful alternative engine presence.