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Best Azure Synapse Analytics Alternatives in 2026

Taken from Data Warehouse Software, where Azure Synapse Analytics is listed too, in the same order.

  1. 1

    Exasol

    Exasol is an analytics database for organizations running high-concurrency analytics and AI workloads.

    • Free plan
    • Windows · macOS · Linux · Web
    8.5 Club score
  2. 2

    Databricks Notebooks

    Databricks Notebooks is a web-based environment for data and machine-learning work.

    • Free plan
    • Windows · macOS · Linux · Web
    8.4 Club score
  3. 3

    Databend

    Databend is an open-source, Rust-powered data warehouse for analytics, search, and AI workloads.

    • Free plan
    • Open source
    • macOS · Linux · Web · API
    8.4 Club score
  4. 4

    Teradata VantageCloud

    Teradata VantageCloud is Teradata’s cloud deployment for production AI, analytics, lakehouse, and agentic AI workloads; Teradata says it was renamed Teradata Cloud in…

    • Free plan
    • Linux · Web · API · Self-hosted
    7.8 Club score
  5. 5

    Yellowbrick Data Warehouse

    Yellowbrick Data Warehouse is a SQL data platform for data warehousing and application analytics.

    • Free trial
    • Windows · macOS · Linux · Web
    7.8 Club score
  6. 6

    Oracle Autonomous AI Lakehouse

    Oracle Autonomous AI Lakehouse is a pay-per-use platform for running AI on data with open-source lake technologies and enterprise data warehouse capabilities.

    • Free plan
    • Linux · Web · API · Self-hosted
    7.6 Club score
  7. 7

    Firebolt

    Firebolt is an open-source analytical database for engineers, using Postgres-compatible SQL for low-latency, high-concurrency analytics.

    • Free plan
    • Linux · Web · API · Self-hosted
    7.5 Club score
  8. 8

    Greenplum Database

    Greenplum Database is an open-source data warehouse based on PostgreSQL for analytics, machine learning, and AI workloads at petabyte scale.

    • Free plan
    • Linux · API · Self-hosted
    7.4 Club score
  9. 9

    Apache Hive

    Apache Hive is a distributed data warehouse system for reading, writing, and managing large datasets with SQL.

    • Free plan
    • Windows · macOS · Linux · API
    7.3 Club score
  10. 10

    Amazon Redshift

    Amazon Redshift is a cloud data warehouse for SQL analytics across data warehouses and data lakes.

    • Free trial
    • Web · API
    6.8 Club score
  11. 11

    BigQuery Data Clean Rooms

    BigQuery Data Clean Rooms let multiple parties share, join, and analyze data without moving or exposing the underlying data.

    • Web · API
    6.5 Club score
  12. 12

    Teradata Database

    Teradata Database is the core of the Teradata SQL Engine, built for complex analytical workloads with massively parallel processing.

    • Linux · Web · API · Self-hosted
    6.5 Club score
  13. 13

    Tencent Cloud TCHouse-D

    Tencent Cloud TCHouse-D is a fully managed, cloud-native OLAP service built on Apache Doris for multidimensional business analysis and user behavior analysis.

    • Web · API
    6.5 Club score
  14. 14

    Panoply

    Panoply.io is a web directory covering data and AI infrastructure tools, guides, and articles.

    • Web
    6.2 Club score
  15. 15

    Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute

    Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute is a cloud data platform with separate storage and compute, suited to data work that needs those resources handled independently.

    • Web
    5.6 Club score
  16. 16 5.6 Club score
  17. 17

    Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB

    Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB is a web-accessed cloud analytics service with separate storage and compute.

    • Web
    5.5 Club score
  18. 18

    Alibaba Cloud Hologres

    Alibaba Cloud Hologres is a web-accessed cloud service with separate storage and compute, data lake support, and streaming ingestion.

    • Web
    5.5 Club score
  19. 19

    Databricks SQL Warehouse

    Databricks SQL Warehouse is a paid, cloud-based service for working with data in a lakehouse environment.

    • Web
    5.4 Club score
  20. 20

    Tencent Cloud TCHouse-C

    Tencent Cloud TCHouse-C is a web-accessed cloud service for data workloads.

    • Web
    5.4 Club score

The whole list: Data Warehouse Software