# ClickHouse Cloud alternatives: what AI models name instead, October 2026

IT AI Recommendation Index, October 2026 Edition. 407 of the 504 answers in the 2 categories where ClickHouse Cloud holds a standing named it neither first nor as an alternative; these are the first choices those answers made. Page: https://it-ai-index.com/vendors/clickhouse-cloud/alternatives/

## Named instead, most often (every category and segment added)

- TimescaleDB: 79
- Snowflake: 72
- Google BigQuery: 71
- InfluxDB: 26
- VictoriaMetrics: 15
- QuestDB: 13

## Data warehouses

**Small business**: 68 of 84 answers did not name ClickHouse Cloud (ClickHouse Cloud is #5 of 8 at 0%).

- Google BigQuery: first choice in 39 of those 68
- Snowflake: first choice in 14 of those 68
- MotherDuck: first choice in 8 of those 68
- Amazon Redshift: first choice in 2 of those 68
- DuckDB: first choice in 1 of those 68
- Snowflake's Standard edition: first choice in 1 of those 68

**Mid-market**: 74 of 84 answers did not name ClickHouse Cloud (ClickHouse Cloud is #4 of 8 at 2%).

- Snowflake: first choice in 23 of those 74
- Google BigQuery: first choice in 21 of those 74
- Amazon Redshift: first choice in 1 of those 74
- Databricks SQL: first choice in 1 of those 74

**Enterprise**: 80 of 84 answers did not name ClickHouse Cloud (ClickHouse Cloud is #7 of 7 at 0%).

- Snowflake: first choice in 35 of those 80
- Google BigQuery: first choice in 11 of those 80
- Amazon Redshift: first choice in 5 of those 80
- Microsoft Fabric Data Warehouse: first choice in 1 of those 80
- MotherDuck: first choice in 1 of those 80

## Time series databases

**Small business**: 69 of 84 answers did not name ClickHouse Cloud (ClickHouse Cloud is #8 of 9 at 0%).

- TimescaleDB: first choice in 38 of those 69
- InfluxDB: first choice in 6 of those 69
- PostgreSQL: first choice in 5 of those 69
- QuestDB: first choice in 4 of those 69
- VictoriaMetrics: first choice in 4 of those 69
- PostgreSQL with TimescaleDB: first choice in 3 of those 69
- Prometheus: first choice in 3 of those 69
- Amazon Timestream: first choice in 2 of those 69

**Mid-market**: 57 of 84 answers did not name ClickHouse Cloud (ClickHouse Cloud is #7 of 9 at 0%).

- TimescaleDB: first choice in 21 of those 57
- InfluxDB: first choice in 8 of those 57
- VictoriaMetrics: first choice in 4 of those 57
- QuestDB: first choice in 3 of those 57
- InfluxDB 3.x: first choice in 1 of those 57
- InfluxDB OSS: first choice in 1 of those 57
- Prometheus: first choice in 1 of those 57
- Tiger Cloud: first choice in 1 of those 57

**Enterprise**: 59 of 84 answers did not name ClickHouse Cloud (ClickHouse Cloud is #7 of 10 at 0%).

- TimescaleDB: first choice in 20 of those 59
- InfluxDB: first choice in 12 of those 59
- VictoriaMetrics: first choice in 7 of those 59
- QuestDB: first choice in 6 of those 59
- Amazon Timestream: first choice in 2 of those 59
- Datadog: first choice in 1 of those 59
- Timescale Cloud: first choice in 1 of those 59
- TimescaleDB Cloud: first choice in 1 of those 59

Published under CC BY 4.0. The output is the models' output; nothing here is a recommendation by the index.