The Yellowbrick Challenge: Yellowbrick vs. Snowflake

Опубликовано: 19 Июнь 2026
на канале: Yellowbrick Data
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Yellowbrick is fast. Blazing fast! See the side-by-side comparison between Snowflake and Yellowbrick performance when running with TPC-DS data.

Yellowbrick completes the job in less than half the time and is more than 75% cheaper than Snowflake!

Dataset:

TPC-DS dataset loaded in both Yellowbrick and Snowflake
100 GB, 1.2 billion row largest table
Exact same data in both DBs – no tuning

Workload:

~500 Unique SQL queries
Mix of complex, slow running, and simple queries
Same queries / same order against both DBs
11 concurrent queries running against Yellowbrick and Snowflake

Compute Cluster Size:

Yellowbrick: 5x small nodes ($11.33/hour, 1-Year Subscription)
Snowflake: 16 node XL (16 credits, $32/hour, Standard Edition)

Ready to learn more? Book a demo at https://yellowbrick.com/book-a-demo/