ClickHouse published a splashy 22–28× cost claim against Snowflake ingestion. Our engineers tore it apart.
The truth: Snowpipe Streaming pre-clusters data at ingest — up to 10 Gb/s, query-ready on arrival, no separate clustering step, no hidden costs.
sridhar@RamaswmySridhar
Hot take: if your benchmark "wins" by omitting half the costs and misconfiguring your competitor's stack, you haven't won anything.
Testing with concurrent workloads at scale reveals Snowflake is far more cost effective than ClickHouse at scale.
More here: http://snowflake.com/blog/engineering/efficient-snowflake-ingestion-query-ready
6:30 AM · Jul 2, 2026 · 1.1K Views
