# Join me if you can: ClickHouse vs. Databricks vs. Snowflake - Part 1

DevFeed: [Join me if you can: ClickHouse vs. Databricks vs. Snowflake - Part 1](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/join-me-if-you-can-clickhouse-vs-databricks-vs-snowflake-part-1-5353.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://clickhouse.com/blog/join-me-if-you-can-clickhouse-vs-databricks-snowflake-join-performance>)

Author: Al Brown; Tom Schreiber

Published: 2025-06-24T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [ClickHouse Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/clickhouse-blog.md>)

Topics: [clickhouse](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/clickhouse.md>), [Benchmark](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/benchmark.md>), [databricks](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/databricks.md>), [SQL](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/sql.md>), [Cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cloud.md>), [data](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/data.md>), [GitHub](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/github.md>), [Amazon S3](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/amazon-s3.md>)

Tags: [benchmark](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/benchmark.md>), [blog](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/blog.md>), [clickhouse](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/clickhouse.md>), [cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cloud.md>), [databricks](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/databricks.md>), [datasets](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/datasets.md>), [environment-variables](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/environment-variables.md>), [getting-started](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/getting-started.md>), [github](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/github.md>), [performance](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/performance.md>), [s3](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/s3.md>), [sql](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/sql.md>), [testing](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/testing.md>)

## AI overview

The article reports a comparison in which the authors ran a public, join-heavy SQL benchmark on ClickHouse Cloud using the original queries from a Databricks and Snowflake test. ClickHouse was reported as faster and cheaper across dataset sizes ranging from 721 million to 7.2 billion rows.

## Source excerpt

We took a public benchmark that tests JOIN-heavy SQL queries on Databricks and Snowflake and ran the exact same queries on ClickHouse Cloud. ClickHouse was faster and cheaper at every scale, from 721 million to 7.2 billion rows.